Fiftyone Glacier Explained

Fiftyone Glacier
Type:	cirque/tidewater
Location:	Heard Island Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands Australia
Thickness:	approximately 55 meters
Terminus:	between Lavett Bluff and Lambeth Bluff
Status:	Retreating^[1] ^[2] ^[3] ^[4] ^[5]
Map:	Indian Ocean
Label Position:	top
Mark:	Blue_pog.svg
Embedded:	Wikidata: yes Zoom: 11

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.^{[6] [7]} 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.^{[6] [7]}

Further reading

• Book: U. Radok . D. Watts . 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. 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. 2001. 1–27.
• Kevin Kiernan . Anne McConnell . Glacier retreat and melt-lake expansion at Stephenson Glacier, Heard Island World Heritage Area. Polar Record. 38. 207. 297–308. 2002. 10.1017/S0032247400017988. 37333655 . 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)

Notes and References

1. Ian F. Allison . Peter L. Keage . Recent changes in the glaciers of Heard Island. Polar Record. 23. 255–272. 1986. 10.1017/S0032247400007099. 5 June 2010. 144. 130086301 .
2. Web site: Andrew Ruddell. 25 May 2010. Our subantarctic glaciers: why are they retreating?. Glaciology Program, Antarctic CRC and AAD. 5 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.. 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 . 130245283 . https://archive.today/20121204192707/http://instaar.metapress.com/content/m716t541j2514798/ . dead . 2012-12-04 . 7 June 2010 . free .
6. antarid. 4885. Fiftyone Glacier. 5 June 2010.
7. antarid. 492. Fiftyone Glacier. 5 June 2010.