Forman glacier
| Forman glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 6 km | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ S , 177 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Shackleton Glacier | |
The Forman Glacier is a 6 km long glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains, it flows east to the Shackleton Glacier , where it joins between Mount Franke and Mount Cole .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) named him in 1966 after John H. Forman (1928–2007), a construction mechanic for the United States Navy at McMurdo Station in the Antarctic winter of 1959.
Web links
- Forman Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Forman Glacier on geographic.org (English)