Bishop Glacier
Bishop Glacier is a glacier flowing southwest into the Mozart Ice Piedmont, situated in the northwest portion of Alexander Island, Antarctica. This feature was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-names Committee in 1980 after James Francis Bishop, a former glaciologist of the British Antarctic Survey 1972–78, who worked in Alexander Island, 1973–75.Places of Interest
Highlights include Morley, Mount.
Morley, Mount
Peak
Mount Morley is a mountain rising to about 1,550… Morley, Mount is situated 4 km north of Bishop Glacier.
Bishop Glacier
- Glacier with an elevation of 563 metres (1,847 feet)
- Description: glacier in Antarctica
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-69.69574° or 69° 41′ 45″ south
Longitude
-71.47184° or 71° 28′ 19″ west
Open location code
372C8G3H+P7
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Bishop Glacier” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Bishop Glacier”
- Chinese: “比紹普冰川”
- German: “Bishop-Gletscher”
- Italian: “Ghiacciaio Bishop”
- Swedish: “Bishop Glacier (glaciär i Antarktis)”
- Swedish: “Bishop Glacier”
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