Starbuck 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 ...

15 nautical miles (28 km) long, flowing east along the south side of Taridin Ridge and Padesh Ridge, and entering

Scar Inlet The calving front at the Scar Inlet The Scar Inlet is an area of the Larsen Ice Shelf immediately northwest of Jason Peninsula, named after the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research. It is bounded by Tashtego Point and Chapman Point. Histo ...

immediately north of

Mount Queequeg Mount Queequeg () is a conspicuous, partly snow-covered mountain with three conical summits, the highest 900 m, situated in eastern Aristotle Mountains between the mouths of Starbuck and Stubb Glaciers on the east coast of Graham Land in Antarct ...

, on the east coast of

Graham Land Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and ...

. Surveyed and partially photographed by the

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(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 ...

(FIDASE) in 1955–56, and mapped from these photos by the FIDS in 1957. Named by the

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(UK-APC) after the first mate on the Pequod in

Herman Melville Herman Melville (Name change, born Melvill; August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American people, American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance (literature), American Renaissance period. Among his bes ...

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* Farinotti, D., King, E., Albrecht, A., Huss, M., & Gudmundsson, G. (2014),
The bedrock topography of Starbuck Glacier, Antarctic Peninsula, as determined by radio-echo soundings and flow modeling
', Annals of Glaciology, 55(67), 22-28. doi:10.3189/2014AoG67A025 * Kristaps Lamsters, Janis Karu, Agnis Recs, Davids Berzins,
Detailed subglacial topography and drumlins at the marginal zone of Múlajokull outlet glacier, central Iceland: Evidence from low frequency GPR data
', Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Latvia, Rainis Boulevard 19, LV-1586, Rıga, Latvia * Scambos, T.A. and Berthier, E. and Haran, T. and Shuman, C.A. and Cook, A.J. and Ligtenberg, S. and Bohlander, J. (2014),
Detailed ice loss pattern in the northern Antarctic Peninsula : widespread decline driven by ice front retreats
', The cryosphere., 8 (6). pp. 2135-2145 https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-8-2135-2014 * ANDREW FREEDMAN,
Scientists find large Antarctic ice shelves closer to collapse than they thought
', MAY 19, 2015

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SCAR A scar (or scar tissue) is an area of fibrous tissue that replaces normal skin after an injury. Scars result from the biological process of wound repair in the skin, as well as in other organs, and tissues of the body. Thus, scarring is a na ...

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