Ferrar Glacier

The Ferrar Glacier is an Antarctic glacier about 56 kilometres (35 mi) long, flowing from the plateau of Victoria Land west of the Royal Society Range to New Harbour in McMurdo Sound. The glacier makes a right (east) turn northeast of Knobhead, where it is apposed, i.e., joined in Siamese-twin fashion, to Taylor Glacier. From there, it continues east along the south side of Kukri Hills to New Harbor.

Discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–04) under Captain Robert Falcon Scott, who named this feature for Hartley T. Ferrar, geologist of the expedition. The name Ferrar Glacier was originally applied both to the part of this glacier below its right turn and to the present Taylor Glacier. Griffith Taylor, geologist of the British Antarctic Expedition (1910–14) under Scott, found evidence that these are not two parts of a single glacier but are two glaciers apposed. With this discovery Scott gave the names Ferrar Glacier and Taylor Glacier essentially as now applied; the Taylor Glacier (q.v.) makes a left turn at Cavendish Rocks and drains east along the north side of Kukri Hills.

See also

• List of glaciers in the Antarctic

External links

• "Ferrar Glacier". NASA Earth Observatory. Retrieved 2008-01-26.

 This article incorporates public domain material from "Ferrar Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.