Furness Glacier
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 Map of Elephant Island with Cape Belsham and Point Wild, between which the Furness Glacier lies |
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| location | Elephant Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 61 ° 6 ′ S , 54 ° 52 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Drake Street | |
The Furness Glacier is a glacier on the north coast of Elephant Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It flows into the sea between Cape Belsham and Point Wild .
Participants in the endurance expedition (1914-1916) led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton mapped and named him. Further backgrounds of the naming have not been handed down.
Web links
- Furness Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Furness Glacier on geographic.org (English)