Cadman Glacier is a glacier

Glacier

A glacier is a large persistent body of ice that forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. At least 0.1 km² in area and 50 m thick, but often much larger, a glacier slowly deforms and flows due to stresses induced by its weight...

, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) wide at its mouth and about 7 miles (11.3 km) long, flowing northwestward into the head of the southern arm of Beascochea Bay

Beascochea Bay

Beascochea Bay is a bay, long and wide, indenting the Graham Coast of Graham Land, Antarctica, between Kiev Peninsula and Barison Peninsula, and entered south of Cape Perez...

 on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula

Antarctic Peninsula

The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of the mainland of Antarctica. It extends from a line between Cape Adams and a point on the mainland south of Eklund Islands....

. It was discovered and roughly surveyed in 1909 by the French Antarctic Expedition

French Antarctic Expedition

French Antarctic Expedition refers to several French expeditions in Antarctica.-First expedition:Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec was a French explorer....

 under Jean-Baptiste Charcot. It was surveyed in 1935 by the British Graham Land Expedition

British Graham Land Expedition

A British expedition to Graham Land led by John Lachlan Cope took place between 1920 and 1922. The British Graham Land Expedition was a geophysical and exploration expedition to Graham Land in Antarctica between 1934 to 1937. Under the leadership of John Riddoch Rymill, the expedition spent two...

 (BGLE), led by John Rymill, and later named for John Cadman, 1st Baron Cadman

John Cadman, 1st Baron Cadman

John Cadman, 1st Baron Cadman FRS, GCMG was a British mining engineer, petroleum technologist and public servant.-Early life:...

of Silverdale, who contributed toward the cost of the BGLE, 1934–37.