Morrison Glacier
Morrison Glacier | ||
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location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
length | 5 km | |
Coordinates | 66 ° 10 ′ 2 ″ S , 63 ° 31 ′ 13 ″ W | |
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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).
Web links
- Morrison Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Morrison Glacier on geographic.org (English)