Fox Glacier (Antarctica)
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| location | Wilkesland , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 15 ′ S , 114 ° 20 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Southern ocean | |
The Fox Glacier is a glacier in Wilkesland, East Antarctica . It drains the area northeast of the Law Dome and reaches the Budd Coast 19 km north of the Williamson Glacier , where it flows into the Southern Ocean in the form of a small glacier tongue .
The American cartographer Gardner Dean Blodgett (* 1925) mapped it in 1955 using aerial photographs of Operation Highjump (1946–1947). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the glacier in 1955 after John Lawrence Fox (1811–1864), assistant surgeon on board the sloop USS Vincennes , flagship of the United States Exploring Expedition (1838–1842) under the direction of the American polar explorer Charles Wilkes .
Web links
- Fox Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fox Glacier on geographic.org (English)