Jorum Glacier () is a

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draining the southeast slopes of

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, and lowing east into

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, just north of Caution Point, on the east coast of

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, Antarctica. It was surveyed by the

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in 1947 and 1955. The

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name alludes to the punchbowl shape of the head of the glacier, a " jorum" being a large drinking bowl used for punch.

* Jane G. Ferrigno, Kevin M. Foley, Charles Swithinbank, and Richard S. Williams, Jr.,
20 Coastal-Change and Glaciological Map of the Ross Island Area, Antarctica: 1962–2005
', U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper * Peter A. Tuckett, Jeremy C. Ely, Andrew J. Sole, Stephen J. Livingstone, Benjamin J. Davison, J. Melchior van Wessem, & Joshua Howard,
Rapid accelerations of Antarctic Peninsula outlet glaciers driven by surface melt
', NATURE COMMUNICATIONS , (2019) 10:4311 , https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12039-2 * B. Osmanoglu, F. J. Navarro, R. Hock, M. Braun, and M. I. Corcuera,
Surface velocity and mass balance of Livingston Island ice cap, Antarctica
'', The Cryosphere, vol. 8, no. 5, 2014. doi:10.5194/tc-8-1807-2014

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