James Forbes Glacier
| James Forbes Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 12 ′ S , 158 ° 1 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Somow lake | |
The James Forbes Glacier is a glacier on the Oates coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows into the Somow Sea immediately south of Williamson Head and 10 km west-northwest of Drake Head .
The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it in 2010 after James Sails Forbes (1871 - unknown), a participant in the Dundee Whaling Expedition (1892-1893), the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914), on trips as part of the Discovery Investigations between 1925 and 1927 and on the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929-1931).
Web links
- James Forbes Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ James Forbes glacier named after Dundee polar explorer. In: The Courier , August 13, 2010. Retrieved October 9, 2019.