Farmer Glacier () is a
glacier
A glacier (; ) is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its Ablation#Glaciology, ablation over many years, often Century, centuries. It acquires dis ...
flowing north west into
Starshot Glacier
Starshot Glacier () is a glacier 50 nautical miles (90 km) long, flowing from the polar plateau eastward through the Churchill Mountains, then north along the west side of Surveyors Range, entering the Ross Ice Shelf south of Cape Parr. So ...
, and located between
Mount McKerrow to the north and
Thompson Mountain to the south, at the southern end of the
Surveyors Range
Surveyors Range () is a long mountain range in the Churchill Mountains of Antarctica.
Location
Surveyors Range is long, extending north along the east side of Starshot Glacier from the Thompson Mountain area to the glacier's terminus at the Ro ...
in Antarctica. It was named in honor of
D. W. Farmer, a member of the 1960
Cape Hallett
Cape Hallett is a snow-free area (Antarctic oasis) on the northern tip of the Hallett Peninsula on the Ross Sea coast of Victoria Land, East Antarctica. Cape Adare lies to the north.
History
In 1956, during Operation Deep Freeze II, was dama ...
winter-over team, working as a technician on the geomagnetic project.
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References
Glaciers of Oates Land
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