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Fox Ice Stream () is an ice stream about long flowing into Eltanin Bay southwest of Wirth Peninsula, Antarctica. It 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 ...
after Adrian Fox of the
British Antarctic 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 on ...
, part of the USA–UK cooperative project to compile Glaciological and Coastal-Change Maps of the
Antarctic Peninsula The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín 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 Antarctic ...
; he was active in field and mapping projects from the early 1990s onwards.


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Ice streams of Ellsworth Land {{EllsworthLand-geo-stub