Fuerza Aérea Glacier

Fuerza Aérea Glacier is a glacier on Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica extending 4.5 km in northeast-southwest direction and 2 km in southeast-northwest direction and draining the northwest slopes of Breznik Heights to flow northwestwards into Discovery Bay.

The feature was named by the 1947 Chilean Antarctic Expedition for the Chilean Air Force.

Location

The glacier is centred at (Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009).

Note: the United States Geological Survey had alternative coordinates .

Maps

• L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
• L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4

Reference

• SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Fuerza Aérea Glacier" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).