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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Morley, Mount.
Morley, Mount
Peak
Mount Morley is a mountain rising to about 1,550 metres in the southern part of the Lassus Mountains, in northwestern Alexander Island, Antarctica. It was first mapped from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition in 1947–48 by D. Morley, Mount is situated 4 km north of Bishop Glacier.
Bishop Glacier
- Type: Glacier with an elevation of 563 metres
- Description: glacier in Antarctica
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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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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