Jorum Glacier

Glacier in Antarctica

Location of Oscar II Coast on Antarctic Peninsula.

Jorum Glacier (65°14′S 62°3′W / 65.233°S 62.050°W / -65.233; -62.050) is a glacier draining the southeast slopes of Forbidden Plateau, and lowing east into Exasperation Inlet, just north of Caution Point, on the east coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1947 and 1955. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee name alludes to the punchbowl shape of the head of the glacier, a "jorum" being a large drinking bowl used for punch.^[1]

Further reading

Jane G. Ferrigno, Kevin M. Foley, Charles Swithinbank, and Richard S. Williams, Jr., 20 Coastal-Change and Glaciological Map of the Ross Island Area, Antarctica: 1962–2005, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper
Peter A. Tuckett, Jeremy C. Ely, Andrew J. Sole, , Stephen J. Livingstone, Benjamin J. Davison, J. Melchior van Wessem, & Joshua Howard, Rapid accelerations of Antarctic Peninsula outlet glaciers driven by surface melt, NATURE COMMUNICATIONS | (2019) 10:4311 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12039-2
B. Osmanoglu, F. J. Navarro, R. Hock, M. Braun, and M. I. Corcuera, Surface velocity and mass balance of Livingston Island ice cap, Antarctica, The Cryosphere, vol. 8, no. 5, 2014. doi:10.5194/tc-8-1807-2014

External links

Jorum Glacier on USGS website
Jorum Glacier on AADC website
Jorum Glacier on SCAR website

References

^ "Jorum Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2013-04-08.

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

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