Flask Glacier (), is a gently-sloping
glacier
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, long, flowing east from
Bruce Plateau to enter
Scar Inlet between
Daggoo Peak and
Spouter Peak in
Graham Land
Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee ...
, Antarctica. The lower reaches of this glacier were surveyed and photographed by the
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey
The Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) was an aerial survey of the Falkland Islands Dependencies
The Falkland Islands Dependencies was the constitutional arrangement from 1843 until 1985 for administering the v ...
(FIDS) in 1947. The entire glacier was photographed by the
Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition
The Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) was an aerial survey of the Falkland Islands Dependencies and the Antarctic Peninsula which took place in the 1955–56 and 1956–57 southern summers.
Funded by the Colonial ...
in 1955–56, and mapped by the FIDS in 1957. It was named by the
UK Antarctic Place-names Committee
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) an ...
after the third mate on the ''
Pequod'' in
Herman Melville's ''
Moby-Dick; or, The White Whale''.
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Tributary glaciers
* Ambergris Glacier
* Belogradchik Glacier
See also
* List of glaciers in the Antarctic
There are many glaciers in the Antarctic. This set of lists does not include ice sheets, ice caps or ice fields, such as the Antarctic ice sheet, but includes glacial features that are defined by their flow, rather than general bodies of ice ...
* List of Antarctic ice streams
* Glaciology
Glaciology (; ) is the scientific study of glaciers, or, more generally, ice and natural phenomena that involve ice.
Glaciology is an interdisciplinary Earth science that integrates geophysics, geology, physical geography, geomorphology, clim ...
Further reading
* T. A. Scambos, J. A. Bohlander, C. A. Shuman, P. Skvarca, https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2004GL020670 Glacier acceleration and thinning after ice shelf collapse in the Larsen B embayment, Antarctica]'', The Cryosphere, Volume 31, Issue 18, 22 September 2004 https://doi.org/10.1029/2004GL020670
* Farinotti, Daniel, Corr, Hugh, Gudmundsson, G. Hilmar,
The ice thickness distribution of Flask Glacier, Antarctic Peninsula, determined by combining radio-echo soundings, surface velocity data and flow modelling
', Annals of Glaciology / 54, PP 18 - 24 https://doi.org/10.3189/2013AoG63A603
* Douglas Fox,
Scientists Trek to Collapsing Glaciers to Assess Antarctica’s Meltdown and Sea-Level Rise
', SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
External links
Flask Glacier
on USGS
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website
Flask Glacier
on AADC website
Flask Glacier
on SCAR
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website
References
Glaciers of Oscar II Coast
Place names inspired by Moby-Dick
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