Frankenfield Glacier
| Frankenfield Glacier | ||
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| location | Thurston Island , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 52 ′ S , 98 ° 13 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Bellingshausen lake | |
The Frankenfield Glacier is a small glacier in the north of Thurston Island off the Eights coast of the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It flows in the northeast section of the Noville Peninsula in an east-northeast direction between Mount Feury and Mulroy Island to the Bellingshausen Sea .
A first rough determination of the glacier's position was based on aerial photographs taken by the United States Navy during Operation Highjump (1946–1947) in December 1946. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1960 after Lieutenant Chester Frankenfield, a meteorologist and involved in the construction of a weather station on Thurston Island during the US Navy's research trip to the Bellingshausen Sea in February 1960.
Web links
- Frankenfield Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Frankenfield Glacier on geographic.org (English)