Morrison Glacier

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Morrison Glacier
location Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
length 5 km
Coordinates 66 ° 10 ′ 2 ″  S , 63 ° 31 ′ 13 ″  W Coordinates: 66 ° 10 ′ 2 ″  S , 63 ° 31 ′ 13 ″  W
Morrison Glacier (Antarctic Peninsula)
Morrison Glacier
drainage Cabinet inlet

The Morrison Glacier is a 5 kilometer long glacier on the Foyn coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows south between the Attlee and Eden glaciers to the head of Cabinet Inlet .

The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped it and named it after the British politician Herbert Stanley Morrison (1888-1965), Minister of Supply and later Minister of the Interior in the War Cabinet under Winston Churchill . Aerial photographs were taken during the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948).

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