Fritter Glacier
| Fritter Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Gonville and Caius Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 8 ′ S , 162 ° 35 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Wilson Piedmont Glacier | |
The Fritter Glacier is a glacier in East Antarctica, Victoria Land . In the Gonville and Caius Range, it flows between Mount Curtiss and Mount Jensen in an easterly direction to the Wilson Piedmont Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2000 after Charles Taylor Fritter (1909-1970), captain of the aircraft mother ship USS Curtiss , troop carrier in Operation Deep Freeze between 1956 and 1957 in McMurdo Sound .
Web links
- Fritter Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fritter Glacier on geographic.org (English)