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Forel Glacier
Forel Glacier
is a
glacier
wide and long, flowing southwest into
Blind Bay
, on the west coast of
Graham Land
, Antarctica. It was first roughly surveyed in 1936 by the
British Graham Land Expedition
under
John Rymill
. Its lower reaches were surveyed in 1949 by the
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey
, and the glacier named by them for
François-Alphonse Forel
, a noted Swiss glacier physicist and author, and first President of the International Commission of Glaciers in 1894.
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