Fleming Glacier () is a broad
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 ...
long on the west side of the
Antarctic Peninsula
The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martin in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica.
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, flowing west-northwest and terminating in
Forster Ice Piedmont to the east of the
Wordie Ice Shelf
The Wordie Ice Shelf () was a confluent glacier projecting as an ice shelf into the SE part of Marguerite Bay between Cape Berteaux and Mount Edgell, along the western coast of Antarctic Peninsula.
In March 2008, the British Antarctic Surve ...
. The glacier was charted by the
British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) under
John Rymill
John Riddoch Rymill (13 March 1905 – 7 September 1968) was an Australian polar explorer, who had the rare second clasp added to his Polar Medal.
Early life
Rymill was born at Penola, South Australia, the second son of Robert Rymill (7 J ...
, 1934–37, and was photographed from the air by the
United States Antarctic Service
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on September 29, 1940. This hitherto unnamed feature was named by the
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica.
History
The committee was established ...
in 1947 for Reverend
W.L.S. Fleming, Dean of
Trinity Hall,
Cambridge University
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; also, chaplain, chief scientist, and geologist of the BGLE.
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Further reading
* Wendt, A.; Wendt, J.; Bown, F.; Rivera, A.; Zamora, R.; Bravo, C.; Casassa, G.,
Ice flow velocities and elevation change at Fleming Glacier, Wordie Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula
', EGU General Assembly 2009, held 19-24 April, 2009 in Vienna, Austria http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2009, p.11788
* Mauri Pelto,
Ongoing Evolution of Fleming Glacier, Antarctica
', OCTOBER 31, 2019
External links
Fleming Glacier
on USGS
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website
Fleming Glacier
on SCAR
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website
Fleming Glacier
image on NASA
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website
Fleming Glacier
on mindat.org
References
Glaciers of Palmer Land
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