Foundation Ice Stream
Foundation Ice Stream is a major ice stream in the Pensacola Mountains of Antarctica. The ice stream drains northward for 150 nautical miles along the west side of the Patuxent Range and the Neptune Range to enter the Ronne Ice Shelf westward of Dufek Massif.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Water
- Description: major ice stream in Antarctica
- Also known as: “Bahía Buen Suceso Glacier”
Foundation Ice Stream
- Categories: ice stream and body of water
- Location: Antarctica
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Spanish—“Foundation Ice Stream” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “方德申冰流”
- French: “courant glaciaire Foundation”
- French: “Courant glaciaire Foundation”
- German: “Foundation-Eisstrom”
- Hebrew: “זרם הקרח פאונדיישן”
- Italian: “Foundation Ice Stream”
- Latvian: “Bahía Buen Suceso”
- Latvian: “Bajabuensuseso glečers”
- Latvian: “Faundeišena ledus straume”
- Latvian: “Faundeišenas ledus straume”
- Latvian: “Foundation Ice Stream”
- Latvian: “Glaciar Bahía Buen Suceso”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Foundationstraumen”
- Spanish: “Glaciar Bahía Buen Suceso”
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