Fleming Glacier

Fleming Glacier is a broad glacier 25 nautical miles long on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula, flowing west-northwest and terminating in Forster Ice Piedmont to the east of the Wordie Ice Shelf Its course is within Palmer Land; part of the British Antarctic Territory.

The glacier was charted by the British Graham Land Expedition under John Rymill, 1934–37, and was photographed from the air by the United States Antarctic Service on September 29, 1940. This hitherto unnamed feature was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1947 for Reverend W.L.S. Fleming, Dean of Trinity Hall in the University of Cambridge; also, chaplain, chief scientist, and geologist of the British Graham Land Expedition.

Location

• Location map: 69°25’0"S, 66°40’0"W

References

• Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Fleming Glacier