Fountain glacier

Fountain glacier
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location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Asgard Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	77 ° 41 ′ S , 161 ° 38 ′ E Coordinates: 77 ° 41 ′ S , 161 ° 38 ′ E
drainage	Pearse Valley

The Fountain Glacier is a small glacier in East Antarctica, Victoria Land . In the Asgard Range, it flows between the Nylen and Catspaw glaciers in a southerly direction into the Pearse Valley .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2004 after the geologist Andrew G. Fountain of Portland State University , who was involved in the study of the mass balance of glacial ice in the Antarctic dry valleys between 1993 and 2003 as part of the United States Antarctic Program .

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