Brown Glacier Explained

Brown Glacier
Location:	Heard Island Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands Australia
Thickness:	approximately 55 meters
Terminus:	Brown Lagoon
Status:	Retreating^[1] ^[2] ^[3] ^[4] ^[5]
Map:	Indian Ocean
Label Position:	top
Mark:	Blue_pog.svg
Embedded:	Wikidata: yes Zoom: 11

Brown Glacier is a glacier just south of Round Hill on the east side of Heard Island in the southern Indian Ocean. Its terminus is at Brown Lagoon. To the northwest of Brown Glacier is Compton Glacier, whose terminus is located at Compton Lagoon, between Gilchrist Beach and Fairchild Beach. To the southeast of Brown Glacier is Stephenson Glacier, whose terminus is located between Dovers Moraine and Stephenson Lagoon.

Discovery and naming

Brown Glacier was surveyed by ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) in 1948. Named by Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) for K.G. Brown, ANARE biologist on Heard Island in 1951.

Further reading

• Book: U. Radok . D. Watts . amp . Snow and Ice (Proceedings of the Moscow Symposium, August 1971). A synoptic background to glacier variations of Heard Island. International Association of Hydrological Sciences. Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK. 104. 1975. 42–56. http://iahs.info/redbooks/a104/iahs_104_0042.pdf. 7 June 2010.
• Book: Truffer M,Thost D, Ruddell A. Antarctic CRC Research Report No. 24. The Brown Glacier, Heard Island: its morphology, dynamics, mass balance and climate setting. Cooperative Research Centre for the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Environment, University of Tasmania. Hobart, Tasmania. 1875796207. 2001. 1–27.
• Kevin Kiernan . Anne McConnell . amp . Glacier retreat and melt-lake expansion at Stephenson Glacier, Heard Island World Heritage Area. Polar Record. 38. 207. 297–308. 2002. 10.1017/S0032247400017988. 7 June 2010.

External links

• 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)
• Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)

Notes and References

1. Ian F. Allison . Peter L. Keage . amp . Recent changes in the glaciers of Heard Island. Polar Record. 23. 255–272. 1986. 10.1017/S0032247400007099. 144.
2. Web site: Andrew Ruddell. 25 May 2010. Our subantarctic glaciers: why are they retreating?. Glaciology Program, Antarctic CRC and AAD. 7 June 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20091002074124/http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=2100. 2 October 2009. dead.
3. Quilty, P.G. . Wheller, G. . amp . Heard Island and the McDonald Islands: A window into the Kerguelen Plateau (Heard Island Papers). Pap. Proc. R. Soc. Tasm.. 133. 2. 1–12. 2000.
4. Budd, G.M.. Changes in Heard Island glaciers, king penguins and fur seals since 1947 (Heard Island Papers). Pap. Proc. R. Soc. Tasm.. 133. 2. 47–60. 2000.
5. Douglas E. Thost . Martin Truffer . Glacier Recession on Heard Island, Southern Indian Ocean . Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research . 40 . 1 . 199–214 . February 2008 . 10.1657/1523-0430(06-084)[THOST]2.0.CO;2 . https://archive.today/20121204192707/http://instaar.metapress.com/content/m716t541j2514798/ . dead . 2012-12-04 . 7 June 2010 . free .