Fourcade Glacier
| Fourcade Glacier | ||
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| location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 13 ′ S , 58 ° 40 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Potter Cove | |
The Fourcade Glacier ( Polish Lodowiec Fourcade ) is a glacier on King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It's at the head of Potter Cove on Maxwell Bay .
Participants in a Polish Antarctic expedition in 1980 named it after Néstor H. Fourcade of the Instituto Antártico Argentino , who carried out geological surveys in Potter Cove and on the Fildes Peninsula in several campaigns between 1957 and 1961 .
Web links
- Fourcade Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fourcade Glacier on geographic.org (English)