Fleece Glacier () is a tributary

glacier A glacier (; or ) is a persistent body of dense ice, a form of rock, that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. It acquires ...

that enters

Leppard Glacier Leppard Glacier () is a large valley glacier draining east between the Aristotle Mountains and Voden Heights, and flowing into Scar Inlet north of Ishmael Peak, on the east coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. The glacier was first seen from the a ...

on its north side about east of Moider Peak, on the east side of

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 toponym is one in a group applied in the vicinity 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 ...

that reflects a whaling theme, Fleece being the cook aboard the ''

Pequod Pequod or Pequot may refer to: *The Pequod, or Pequot, a Native American people of Connecticut * ''Pequod'' (''Moby-Dick''), a whaleship that appears in Herman Melville's 1851 novel ''Moby-Dick'' * Pequod Glacier * Pequod Mountain, in British Colum ...

'' in

Herman Melville Herman Melville (Name change, born Melvill; August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance (literature), American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works ar ...

's ''

Moby-Dick ''Moby-Dick; or, The Whale'' is an 1851 Epic (genre), epic novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is centered on the sailor Ishmael (Moby-Dick), Ishmael's narrative of the maniacal quest of Captain Ahab, Ahab, captain of the whaler ...

''.

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Glaciers of Oscar II Coast Place names inspired by Moby-Dick {{OscarIICoast-glacier-stub