Fisher Glacier
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Fisher Glacier is a prominent western tributary to the Lambert Glacier
Lambert Glacier
Lambert Glacier is a major glacier in East Antarctica. At about 60 miles wide, over 250 miles long, and about 2,500 meters deep, it holds the Guinness world record for the world's largest glacier...

, about 100 miles (160 km) long, flowing east past the north sides of Mount Menzies
Mount Menzies
Mount Menzies is the culminating peak on the large massif between Mount Mather and Mount Bayliss, standing on the south side of Fisher Glacier, Antarctica. It was sighted by Flying Officer J. Seaton from an ANARE Beaver aircraft in 1956, and mapped by an ANARE southern seismic party under K.B....

 and Mount Rubin
Mount Rubin
Mount Rubin is a large, gently domed mountain, with a long tail of moraine trending east, standing 16 nautical miles west-northwest of Cumpston Massif in the Prince Charles Mountains. Photographed from the air by ANARE , 1956-58. Named by Antarctic Names Committee of Australia for American...

 and joining the main stream of the Lambert Glacier
Lambert Glacier
Lambert Glacier is a major glacier in East Antarctica. At about 60 miles wide, over 250 miles long, and about 2,500 meters deep, it holds the Guinness world record for the world's largest glacier...

 just east of Mount Stinear. Sighted from ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions
Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions
The Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions is the historical name for the Australian Antarctic Program administered for Australia by the Australian Antarctic Division .-The ANARE Name:...

) aircraft by K.B. Mather in 1957. Named by ANCA for N.H. Fisher, chief geologist
Geologist
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, Bureau of Mineral Resources, Dept. of National Development, Australia
Australia
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