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
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, Antarctica. The lower reaches of this glacier were surveyed and photographed by the
Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey
The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national polar research institute. It has a dual purpose, to conduct polar science, enabling better understanding of global issues, and to provide an active presence in the Antarctic o ...
(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
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after the third mate on the ''
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'' 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
* List of Antarctic ice streams
This is a list of Antarctic ice streams.
A complete list of Antarctic ice streams is not available. Names and locations of Antarctic ice features, including those listed below, can be found in the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, Gazett ...
* Glaciology
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Glaciology is an interdisciplinary Earth science that integrates geophysics, geology, physical geography, geomorphology, c ...
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
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