Fry glacier

Fry glacier
FRY GLACIER (upper part) in the southeast part of the map sheet
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	76 ° 38 ′  S , 162 ° 18 ′  E Coordinates: 76 ° 38 ′  S , 162 ° 18 ′  E
drainage	Ross Sea

The Fry Glacier is a glacier in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows from the northeast corner of the Convoy Range along the southern end of the Kirkwood Range into Tripp Bay on the Scott Coast .

Participants in the Nimrod Expedition (1907-1909), led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, discovered and mapped it. It is named after Albert Magnus Fry (1857–1938), a Scottish chocolate producer and sponsor of the expedition.

See also

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

• Fry Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Fry Glacier on geographic.org
• Fry Glacier. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 135 (English)