Fleece Glacier
Glacier in Antarctica
Fleece Glacier (65°54′S 63°10′W / 65.900°S 63.167°W / -65.900; -63.167) is a tributary glacier that enters Leppard Glacier on its north side about 1.5 nautical miles (3 km) east of Moider Peak, on the east side of Graham Land, Antarctica. The toponym is one in a group applied in the vicinity by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee that reflects a whaling theme, Fleece being the cook aboard the Pequod in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.[1]
References
- ^ "Fleece Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2012-03-27.
This article incorporates public domain material from "Fleece Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
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- Adélie Land
- Bouvet Island
- Coats Land
- Ellsworth Land
- Enderby Land
- Graham Land
- Heard Island and McDonald Islands
- James Ross Island and Graham Land
- Kaiser Wilhelm II Land
- Kemp Land
- Mac. Robertson Land
- Marie Byrd Land
- Oates Land
- Palmer Archipelago and Graham Land
- Palmer Land
- Princess Elizabeth Land
- Queen Elizabeth Land
- Queen Mary Land
- Queen Maud Land
- Ross Dependency
- South Georgia
- South Shetland Islands
- South Orkney Islands
- Trinity Peninsula and Graham Land
- Victoria Land
- Wilkes Land
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