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Fiftyone Glacier is a large glacier flowing southwards, on the south side of Heard Island in the southern Indian Ocean. Its terminus is located between Lavett Bluff and Lambeth Bluff. To the northeast of Fiftyone Glacier is Winston Glacier, whose terminus is located at Winston Lagoon, between Cape Lockyer and Oatt Rocks. To the west of Fiftyone Glacier is Deacock Glacier, whose terminus is located between Cape Labuan and Long Beach.
Discovery and naming
Fiftyone Glacier was surveyed by ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) in 1948. It was named "The 1951 Glacier" by an ANARE party that made a traverse of Heard Island in 1951. The form Fiftyone Glacier was recommended by Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) in 1964.
References
Further reading
U. Radok; D. Watts (1975). "A synoptic background to glacier variations of Heard Island". Snow and Ice (Proceedings of the Moscow Symposium, August 1971) (PDF) (104 ed.). Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK: International Association of Hydrological Sciences]. pp. 42–56. Retrieved 7 June 2010.
Truffer, M.; Thost, D.; Ruddell, A. (2001). "The Brown Glacier, Heard Island: its morphology, dynamics, mass balance and climate setting". Antarctic CRC Research Report No. 24. Hobart, Tasmania: Cooperative Research Centre for the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Environment, University of Tasmania. pp. 1–27.
Kevin Kiernan; Anne McConnell (2002). "Glacier retreat and melt-lake expansion at Stephenson Glacier, Heard Island World Heritage Area" (PDF). Polar Record. 38 (207): 297–308. doi:10.1017/S0032247400017988. S2CID 37333655. Retrieved 7 June 2010.
External links
Click here to see a map of Heard Island and McDonald Islands, including all major topographical features
Australian Antarctic Division
Australian Antarctic Gazetteer
Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
Australian Antarctic Names and Medals Committee (AANMC)
United States Geological Survey, Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Archived 18 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine
This article incorporates public domain material from "Fiftyone Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
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- Fiftyone Glacier
- List of glaciers of Heard Island and McDonald Islands
- Winston Glacier
- Deacock Glacier
- Lambeth Bluff
- Subantarctic
- South Barrier
- Lavett Bluff