Fuerza Aérea Glacier is a glacier on Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, extending 4.5 kilometres (2.8 mi) in a northeast–southwest direction and 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) in a southeast–northwest direction and draining the northwest slopes of the Breznik Heights to flow northwestwards into Discovery Bay.
Fuerza Aérea Glacier | |
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![]() Location of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands | |
Location of Fuerza Aérea Glacier in Antarctica | |
Location | Greenwich Island South Shetland Islands |
Coordinates | 62°30′25″S 59°39′40″W / 62.50694°S 59.66111°W |
Length | 2.8 nmi (5 km; 3 mi) |
Width | 1.2 nmi (2 km; 1 mi) |
Thickness | unknown |
Terminus | Discovery Bay |
Status | unknown |
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It was named "Glaciar Fuerza Aérea" (Air Force Glacier) by the 1947 Chilean Antarctic Expedition for the Chilean Air Force.[1]
Location
editThe glacier is centred at 62°30′25″S 59°39′40″W / 62.50694°S 59.66111°W (Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009).
Note: the United States Geological Survey has alternative coordinates of 62°30′S 59°38′W / 62.500°S 59.633°W.
Maps
edit- L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
- L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4
References
edit- SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
- This article incorporates public domain material from "Fuerza Aérea Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.