Starbuck Glacier
| Starbuck Glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| length | 24 km | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 37 ′ S , 62 ° 25 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Scar Inlet , Weddell Sea | |
The Starbuck Glacier is a 24 km long glacier on the Oscar II coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows in an easterly direction to Scar Inlet , which it reaches immediately north of Mount Queequeg .
It was mapped and partly photographed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1947 . It was completely photographed during the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1955–1956), which the FIDS used for complete mapping in 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the glacier after the first deck officer Starbuck on the whaler Pequod in Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick .
Web links
- Starbuck Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Starbuck Glacier on geographic.org (English)