This is a
list of glaciers in the Antarctic. This list does not include
ice sheetAn ice sheet is a mass of glacier ice that covers surrounding terrain and is greater than 50,000 km² , thus also known as continental glacier...
s,
ice capAn ice cap is an ice mass that covers less than 50 000 km² of land area . Masses of ice covering more than 50 000 km² are termed an ice sheet....
s or
ice fieldAn ice field is an area less than 50,000 km² of ice often found in the colder climates and higher altitudes of the world where there is sufficient precipitation. It is an extensive area of interconnected valley glaciers from which the higher peaks rise as nunataks...
s, such as the
Antarctic ice sheetThe Antarctic ice sheet is one of the two polar ice caps of the Earth. It covers about 98% of the Antarctic continent and is the largest single mass of ice on Earth. It covers an area of almost 14 million square km and contains 30 million cubic km of ice...
, but includes
glacialA 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...
features that are defined by their flow, rather than general bodies of ice. This list includes outlet glaciers, valley glaciers, cirque glaciers, tidewater glaciers and
ice streamAn ice stream is a region of an ice sheet that moves significantly faster than the surrounding ice. Ice streams are a type of glacier. They are significant features of the Antarctic where they account for 10% of the volume of the ice...
s. Ice streams are a type of glacier and many of them have "glacier" in their name, e.g.
Pine Island Glacier- Ice sheet drainage :The Antarctic ice sheet is the largest mass of ice on earth, containing a volume of water equivalent to of global sea level. The ice sheet forms from snow which falls onto the continent and compacts under its own weight. The ice then moves under its own weight toward the...
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Ice shelvesAn ice shelf is a thick, floating platform of ice that forms where a glacier or ice sheet flows down to a coastline and onto the ocean surface. Ice shelves are only found in Antarctica, Greenland and Canada. The boundary between the floating ice shelf and the grounded ice that feeds it is called...
are listed separately in the
List of Antarctic ice shelves. For the purposes of this list, the
AntarcticThe Antarctic is the region around the Earth's South Pole, opposite the Arctic region around the North Pole. The Antarctic comprises the continent of Antarctica and the ice shelves, waters and island territories in the Southern Ocean situated south of the Antarctic Convergence...
is defined as any
latitudeIn geography, the latitude of a location on the Earth is the angular distance of that location south or north of the Equator. The latitude is an angle, and is usually measured in degrees . The equator has a latitude of 0°, the North pole has a latitude of 90° north , and the South pole has a...
further south than 60º (the continental limit according to the
Antarctic Treaty SystemThe Antarctic Treaty and related agreements, collectively called the Antarctic Treaty System or ATS, regulate international relations with respect to Antarctica, Earth's only continent without a native human population. For the purposes of the treaty system, Antarctica is defined as all of the land...
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Long GlacierLong Glacier is a glacier about 8 nautical miles long in the southeast part of Thurston Island. It flows south to Abbot Ice Shelf, 14 nautical miles west of Harrison Nunatak. Mapped by United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960-66. Named by Advisory Committee on...
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Lovejoy GlacierLovejoy Glacier is a broad glacier descending eastward through the Usarp Mountains between Anderson Pyramid and Sample Nunataks. In its lower course, the glacier runs side by side with the larger Harlin Glacier to the south without a ridge separating the two. Mapped by United States Geological...
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Lucy GlacierThe Lucy Glacier is a wide glacier which flows southeast from the Antarctic polar plateau, between Laird Plateau and McKay Cliffs, into Nimrod Glacier. It is named after W.R...
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MacAyeal Ice StreamMacAyeal Ice Stream , formerly Ice Stream E, flows west to the juncture of Shirase and Siple Coasts between Bindschadler Ice Stream and Echelmeyer Ice Stream, Antarctica. It is one of several major ice streams draining from Marie Byrd Land into the Ross Ice Shelf...
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Magura GlacierMagura Glacier is located to the north of M'Kean Point on the southeast side of Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and is bounded by Great Needle Peak to the west, Vitosha Saddle, Vihren Peak and Helmet Peak to the northwest, Plovdiv Peak and Shishman...
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Malorad GlacierMalorad Glacier is the 14 km long and 10.5 km wide glacier on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. Situated northeast of Hanson Hill, north of Srednogorie Heights, northwest of Louis-Philippe Plateau and southwest of Marescot Ridge...
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Mariner GlacierMariner Glacier is a major glacier over long, descending southeast from the plateau of Victoria Land, between Mountaineer Range and Malta Plateau, and terminating at Lady Newnes Bay, Ross Sea, where it forms the floating Mariner Glacier Tongue...
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Marsh GlacierThe Marsh Glacier is a glacier about 110 km long, flowing north from the Antarctic polar plateau between the Miller Range and Queen Elizabeth Range into Nimrod Glacier. Seen by a New Zealand party of the CTAE and named for G.W. Marsh, a member of the party....
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Martin GlacierMartin Glacier is a glacier, 3 miles wide and 9 miles long, which flows west and then northwest from the south side of Mount Lupa to the southeast corner of Rymill Bay where it joins the Bertrand Ice Piedmont, on the west coast of Graham Land. Martin Glacier was first surveyed in 1936 by the...
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McClinton GlacierMcClinton Glacier is a glacier between the base of Martin Peninsula and Jenkins Heights, flowing east-northeast into Dotson Ice Shelf, on the Walgreen Coast of Marie Byrd Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photographs, 1959-67. Named by Advisory...
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Meander GlacierMeander Glacier is a large meandering tributary to the Mariner Glacier in Victoria Land. The glacier emerges in the vicinity of Mount Supernal and Hobbie Ridge and drains generally eastward for 30 miles through the Mountaineer Range to join Mariner Glacier just east of Engberg Bluff...
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Medven GlacierMedven Glacier is a 2.5 km long and 1.5 km wide glacier bounded by the east slopes of Oryahovo Heights on Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and draining eastwards into Prisoe Cove, Hero Bay between Remetalk Point and Agüero Point.The...
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Mellor GlacierMellor Glacier is a tributary glacier, flowing northnortheast between Mount Newton and Mount Maguire and coalescing with Collins Glacier just prior to junction with Lambert Glacier at Patrick Point, in the Prince Charles Mountains, Antarctica. It was mapped from air photos taken by ANARE in 1956...
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Mercer Ice StreamMercer Ice Stream , formerly Ice Stream E, flows west to Gould Coast to the south of Whillans Ice Stream, Antarctica. It is the southern most of several major ice streams draining from Marie Byrd Land into the Ross Ice Shelf...
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Mertz GlacierMertz Glacier is a heavily crevassed glacier in George V Coast of East Antarctica. It is the source of a glacial prominence that historically has extended northward into the Southern Ocean, the Mertz Glacial Tongue...
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Mill GlacierMill Glacier is a tributary glacier, 16 km wide, flowing northwest between the Dominion Range and the Supporters Range into Beardmore Glacier. Discovered by the British Antarctic Expedition and named for Hugh Robert Mill, British geographer and Antarctic historian.-See also:* List of glaciers in...
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Minnesota GlacierMinnesota Glacier is a broad glacier in Antarctica. It is about 64 km long and 8 km wide, and flows east through the Ellsworth Mountains, separating the Sentinel and Heritage ranges. It is nourished by ice from the plateau west of the mountains and by the Nimitz and Splettstoesser...
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Mitev GlacierMitev Glacier is the 2.9 km long and 2.5 km wide glacier on Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica situated east of Laennec Glacier. Flowing northeastwards to enter Hill Bay west of Petroff Point....
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Möller Ice StreamMöller Ice Stream is an Antarctic ice stream flowing north northeast into the Ronne Ice Shelf to the west of Foundation Ice Stream. The drainage basin of this ice stream is separated by Rambo Nunataks from the drainage basin of Foundation Ice Stream. The feature was delineated from U.S...
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Muldava GlacierMuldava Glacier is the 4.4 km long and 3.2 km wide glacier on Magnier Peninsula, Graham Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula, situated west of Luke Glacier and northeast of Nesla Glacier...
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Mulock GlacierMulock Glacier in Antarctica is a heavily crevassed glacier which flows into the Ross Ice Shelf 40 km south of the Skelton Glacier in the Ross Dependency, Antarctica.Named by the NZAPC in association with Mulock Inlet....
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Murgash GlacierMurgash Glacier is the 3.4 km long and 3.2 km wide glacier situated east and southeast of Lloyd Hill, west of Tile Ridge and northwest of Hebrizelm Hill on Greenwich Island, in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica...
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Musala GlacierMusala Glacier on Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is bounded by St. Kiprian Peak to the south, Vratsa Peak to the southwest, central Breznik Heights to the west, and Ilarion Ridge bordering Hardy Cove to the northeast...
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Nadjakov GlacierNadjakov Glacier is the 5.5 km long and 2 km wide glacier on Arctowski Peninsula on Danco Coast in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula. Situated east of Wheatstone Glacier...
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Narechen GlacierNarechen Glacier is the 9 km long and 11 km wide glacier draining the western slopes of Lassus Mountains on Alexander Island in Antarctica. Flowing westwards to enter Lazarev Bay in Bellingshausen Sea south of the southwestern ridge of Mount Wilbye and north of Faulkner Nunatak.The glacier is...
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Nash GlacierThe Nash Glacier is a 32 km long glacier, draining the northern slopes of Dunedin Range in the Admiralty Mountains. The terminus of this glacier merges with that of Wallis Glacier and Dennistoun Glacier before reaching the sea east of Cape Scott.Mapped by United States Geological Survey from...
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Nesla GlacierNesla Glacier is the 6.2 km long and 2 km wide glacier on Magnier Peninsula, Graham Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula, situated southwest of Muldava Glacier and north of Kolosh Glacier...
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Newall GlacierNewall Glacier is a glacier in the east part of the Asgard Range of Victoria Land, flowing east between Mount Newall and Mount Weyant into the Wilson Piedmont Glacier. Mapped by the New Zealand Northern Survey Party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1956–58, who named it after nearby...
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Nimitz GlacierThe Nimitz Glacier is an Antarctic glacier, 64 km long and 8 km wide, draining the area about 16 km west of the Vinson Massif and flowing southeast between the Sentinel Range and Bastien Range to enter Minnesota Glacier, in the central Ellsworth Mountains.Discovered by USN...
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Nimrod GlacierThe Nimrod Glacier is a major glacier about 135 km long, flowing from the polar plateau in a northerly direction through the Transantarctic Mountains between the Geologists and Miller Ranges, then northeasterly between the Churchill Mountains and Queen Elizabeth Range, and finally spilling...
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Ninnis GlacierNinnis Glacier is a large, heavily hummocked and crevassed glacier descending steeply from the high interior to the sea in a broad valley, on George V Coast in Antarctica. It was discovered by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition under Douglas Mawson, who named it for Lieutenant B. E. S...
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Northcliffe GlacierNorthcliffe Glacier is a glacier descending to the coast immediately east of Davis Peninsula, in Antarctica. It was discovered by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911–14, under Mawson, and named for Lord Northcliffe, of London, a patron of the expedition....
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Northeast GlacierNortheast Glacier is a steep, heavily crevassed glacier, 13 miles long and 5 miles wide at its mouth, which flows from McLeod Hill westward and then southwestwards into Marguerite Bay between the Debenham Islands and Roman Four Promontory, on the west coast of Graham Land...
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Oakley GlacierOakley Glacier , is a glacier in the Mountaineer Range that descends east from Mount Casey to merge with the floating tongue from the Icebreaker Glacier at Lady Newnes Bay, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. Mapped by U.S. Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960-64. Named by...
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Obelya GlacierObelya Glacier is the 7.5 km long and 2.5 km wide glacier on the east side of southern Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica, situated south of Remington Glacier, and flowing southeastwards along the southwest side of Johnson Spur and east of Mount Benson to join Thomas Glacier.The...
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Ogoya GlacierOgoya Glacier is the 8 km long and 3 km wide glacier on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. Situated west-northwest of Laclavère Plateau, northwest of Broad Valley and northeast of Sestrimo Glacier...
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O'Hara GlacierO'Hara Glacier is a glacier just west of Ackroyd Point, flowing northwest into the south side of Yule Bay, Victoria Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1960-63. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Norbert W...
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Ovech GlacierOvech Glacier is a 3.5 km long glacier on Smith Island, South Shetland Islands draining the southeast slopes of Imeon Range southeast of Drinov Peak and east of Popovo Saddle and Sevlievski Peak. Flowing east-southeastward into Boyd Strait. Bulgarian early mapping in 2009. Named after the...
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Panega GlacierPanega Glacier is located on Varna Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and drains the southeast slopes of Vidin Heights into Moon Bay between Helis Nunatak and Perperek Knoll. The glacier extends 3.7 km in the southeast-northwest direction, and 3 km in...
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Pashuk GlacierPashuk Glacier is the steep 2.7 km long and 600 m wide glacier on the southeast side of Imeon Range, Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, which is draining southeastwards from Vakarel Saddle between the side ridges descending from Antim Peak and Evlogi Peak and separating...
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Pastra GlacierPastra Glacier is a 4.8 km long and 2 km wide glacier in the central part of Trinity Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. Draining northwards to flow into Milburn Bay.The glacier is named after the settlement of Pastra in western Bulgaria....
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Patuxent Ice StreamPatuxent Ice Stream is a broad Antarctic ice stream between the Patuxent Range and Pecora Escarpment in the Pensacola Mountains, draining northwestward to the upper part of Foundation Ice Stream. Mapped by U.S. Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1956-66. Named by Advisory...
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Pautalia GlacierPautalia Glacier is a glacier on Burgas Peninsula, Livingston Island, Antarctica bounded by Petko Voyvoda Peak to the west, Sozopol Gap to the northwest, Kaloyan Nunatak to the north and Shabla Knoll to the east. Extending 700 m in northwest-southeast direction and 1.1 km in southwest-northeast...
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Penck GlacierPenck Glacier is a small glacier flowing northward along the west side of Bertrab Glacier to Vahsel Bay. Discovered by the German Antarctic Expedition, 1911-12, under Wilhelm Filchner, who named this feature for German geographer Albrecht Penck....
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Perunika GlacierPerunika Glacier is an 8 km long and 3 km wide roughly crescent-shaped glacier in eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica....
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Peshtera GlacierThe Peshtera Glacier is a glacier situated on the Rozhen Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica....
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Pimpirev GlacierPimpirev Glacier on Livingston Island drains southeastwards towards Pimpirev Beach. It is situated west of Perunika Glacier, south of Tundzha Glacier and the glacial divide between the Drake Passage and Bransfield Strait, and east of Kamchiya Glacier...
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Pine Island Glacier- Ice sheet drainage :The Antarctic ice sheet is the largest mass of ice on earth, containing a volume of water equivalent to of global sea level. The ice sheet forms from snow which falls onto the continent and compacts under its own weight. The ice then moves under its own weight toward the...
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Pirin GlacierPirin Glacier is the 5.7 km long and 6 km wide glacier situated next east of Chavdar Peninsula on Davis Coast on the Antarctic Peninsula. Situated west of Wright Ice Piedmont, north of Gregory Glacier and east of Samodiva Glacier...
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Pirogov GlacierPirogov Glacier is a 5 km long and 1.5 km wide glacier situated south of Djerassi Glacier and west of Mackenzie Glacier on Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica...
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Poduene GlacierPoduene Glacier is the 3.3 km long and 2.4 km wide glacier on Pefaur Peninsula, Danco Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula, situated west of Agalina Glacier...
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Polar Times GlacierPolar Times Glacier is a glacier on Ingrid Christensen Coast, flowing northward between Svarthausen Nunatak and Boyd Nunatak into the western part of Publications Ice Shelf. It was delineated by John H. Roscoe from aerial photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump, 1946-1947, and named by Roscoe...
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Posadowsky GlacierPosadowsky Glacier is a glacier about long, flowing north to Posadowsky Bay immediately east of Gaussberg. Posadowsky Bay is an open embayment, located just east of the West Ice Shelf and fronting on the Davis Sea in Kaiser Wilhelm II Land...
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Poulter GlacierPoulter Glacier In Antarctica about 180 miles from the South Pole at an elevation of 8,000 feet. It flows east from the Antarctic Plateau past the Rawson Mountains in the Queen Maud Mountains and joins with the Scott Glacier. It was discovered by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition II Geology Party under...
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Prebble GlacierPrebble Glacier is a glacier, 9 nautical miles long, flowing westward from Mount Kirkpatrick in Queen Alexandra Range to enter Walcott Neve north of Fremouw Peak. Named by the Northern Party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition for Michael Prebble, of the base support...
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Prespa GlacierPrespa Glacier on Rozhen Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is bounded to the east by Needle Peak and Ludogorie Peak, to the northwest by St. Cyril Peak and St. Methodius Peak, and to the southwest by Shumen Peak and Yambol Peak, and flows southeastward into...
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Priddy GlacierPriddy Glacier is a glacier, 2 nautical miles long, on the west side of Esser Hill, flowing northwest to join Hobbs Glacier, on Scott Coast, Victoria Land. Named in 1992 by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Allan R...
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Priestley GlacierThe Priestley Glacier is a major valley glacier, about 96 km long, originating at the edge of the polar plateau of Victoria Land. The glacier drains southeast between the Deep Freeze and Eisenhower ranges to enter the northern end of the Nansen Ice Sheet.First explored by the Northern Party...
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Prince Edward GlacierPrince Edward Glacier is a glacier draining the north side of Cotton Plateau in the Queen Elizabeth Range and flowing north for about 6 nautical miles along the west side of Hochstein Ridge. Named by New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, son of Elizabeth...
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Prince Philip GlacierPrince Philip Glacier is a glacier flowing south for about 20 nautical miles between Cobham and Holyoake Ranges into Nimrod Glacier. Named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, husband of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom....
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Prince of Wales GlacierPrince of Wales Glacier is a glacier in the Queen Elizabeth Range, flowing generally north for about 10 nautical miles between Hochstein and Kohmyr Ridges into Hamilton Glacier. Named by the northern party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition for Charles, Prince of Wales,...
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Princess Anne GlacierPrincess Anne Glacier is a glacier in the Queen Elizabeth Range, flowing from the area south of Mount Bonaparte between Cotton and Bartrum Plateaus into Marsh Glacier. Named by the northern party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition for Anne, Princess Royal, daughter of...
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Prospect GlacierProspect Glacier is a glacier between Kinnear Mountains and Mayer Hills, flowing north into Forster Ice Piedmont on the west coast of Antarctic Peninsula. First roughly surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition under Rymill...
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Pryor GlacierPryor Glacier is a glacier flowing northeastward, to the north of Mount Shields and Yermak Point, into Rennick Bay. The feature is about 30 nautical miles long and forms a physical separation between Wilson Hills and Usarp Mountains. Mapped by United States Geological Survey from surveys and...
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Quartermain GlacierQuartermain Glacier is a well-defined, highly-crevassed glacier on the north side of Fricker Glacier, from which it is separated in its upper reaches by Mount Kennett. It flows from the plateau into Mill Inlet on the east coast of Graham Land, and was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic...
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Quito GlacierQuito Glacier is a glacier draining the northeast slopes of Mount Plymouth and flowing northeastwards into the sea west of Canto Point in north Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. It was named after the capital of Ecuador, c. 1990, by the Ecuadorian Antarctic Expedition.-Maps:* L.L. Ivanov...
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Quonset GlacierQuonset Glacier is a glacier about 20 miles long which drains the north slopes of Wisconsin Range between Mount LeSchack and Ruseski Buttress and trends west-northwest to enter the north side of Davisville Glacier. Mapped by United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S...
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Rayner GlacierRayner Glacier is a prominent glacier, 10 miles wide, flowing north to the coast of Enderby Land just west of Condon Hills. It was sighted in October 1956 by Squadron Leader D. Leckie during a flight in an ANARE Beaver aircraft, and named by ANCA for J.M...
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Recovery GlacierThe Recovery Glacier is a glacier flowing west along the southern side of the Shackleton Range in Antarctica. First seen from the air and examined from the ground by the CTAF in 1957, it was so named because of the recovery of the expedition's vehicles which repeatedly broke into bridged crevasses...
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Reedy GlacierThe Reedy Glacier is a major glacier in Antarctica, over 160 km long and from 10 to 19 km wide, descending from the polar plateau to the Ross Ice Shelf between the Michigan Plateau and Wisconsin Range, and marking the limits of the Queen Maud Mountains on the west and the Horlick...
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Remington GlacierRemington Glacier is a steep glacier about 7 nautical miles long in the southeast part of the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains. It rises just north of McPherson Peak and flows east-southeast to debouch between the terminus of Hough Glacier and Johnson Spur.Discovered by U.S...
| 78°34′S 84°18′W
| 13 km
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Rhesus GlacierRhesus Glacier is a 7 km long and 2.5 km wide glacier draining the east slopes of the Trojan Range on Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica southeast of Paris Peak. Situated east of Iliad Glacier, south of Lipen Glacier and north of Thamyris Glacier...
| 64°32′S 63°17′W
| 7 km
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Rippon GlacierRippon Glacier is a small glacier located in Kemp Land, Australian Antarctic Territory, East Antarctica. It is close east of Seaton Glacier, flowing southward into Edward VIII Ice Shelf.-Discovery and naming:...
| 66°40′S 56°29′E
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Robert GlacierRobert Glacier is the eastern of two glaciers entering the southern part of Edward VIII Bay. It was seen by Robert Dovers and G. Schwartz in 1954 while carrying out a sledge journey and survey of Edward VIII Bay. Named by ANCA for Dovers, who was surveyor and officer in charge at Mawson Station in...
| 67°10′S 56°18′E
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Roché GlacierRoché Glacier is the 5.8 km long and 2 km wide glacier draining the central part of Vinson Plateau in Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica...
| 78°32′S 85°39′W
| 5.8 km
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Ropotamo GlacierRopotamo Glacier is a glacier extending 900 m in northeast-southwest direction and 600 m in northwest-southeast direction on the Burgas Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is named after the river Ropotamo in Bulgaria...
| 62°39′S 59°56′W
| 0.6 km
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Rose Valley GlacierRose Valley Glacier is a glacier on Varna Peninsula, eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica extending 5.2 km in southeast-northwest direction, and 3.7 km in southwest-northeast direction...
| 62°31′S 60°6′W
| 3.7 km
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Rumyana GlacierRumyana Glacier is the 11 km long and 4 km wide glacier on the east side of north-central Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica, situated northwest of Patton Glacier...
| 78°16′S 85°50′W
| 11 km
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Rupite GlacierRupite Glacier is a 2.9 km long glacier on Smith Island, South Shetland Islands draining the southeast slopes of Imeon Range east of the summit Mount Foster and southeast of Evlogi Peak. Flowing southeastward into Osmar Strait. Bulgarian early mapping in 2008. Named after the settlement...
| 63°00′S 62°30′W
| 2.9 km
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Rusalka GlacierRusalka Glacier is the 8 km long and 4.6 km wide glacier on Velingrad Peninsula, Graham Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula, situated northeast of Hoek Glacier...
| 65°59′S 64°57′W
| 8 km
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Rutford Ice StreamRutford Ice Stream is a major Antarctic ice stream, about 180 miles long and over 15 miles wide, which drains southeastward between the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains and Fletcher Ice Rise into the southwest part of Ronne Ice Shelf...
| 79°00′S 81°00′W
| 290 km
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Sabine GlacierSabine Glacier is a 13.5 km long glacier on the north side of Detroit Plateau, flowing northwards along the east slopes of Korten Ridge, and terminating at the sea in Jordanoff Bay on Davis Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. Captain Henry Foster gave the name "Cape Sabine" in 1829 to a feature...
| 63°55′S 59°47′W
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Samodiva GlacierSamodiva Glacier is the 3.7 km long and 1.8 km wide glacier in the east part of Chavdar Peninsula in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula. Situated east of Tumba Ice Cap and west of Pirin Glacier...
| 64°06′S 60°50′W
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Saparevo GlacierSaparevo Glacier is an 1.8 km long and 2 km wide glacier on Smith Island, South Shetland Islands draining the northwest slopes of Imeon Range. Flowing north-northeast of Mount Christi and southwest of Matochina Peak into Vedena Cove in Drake Passage. Bulgarian early mapping in 2009. ...
| 62°54′S 62°23′W
| 1.8 km
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Schneider GlacierSchneider Glacier is a glacier in the Heritage Range in Antarctica. It is 15 nautical miles long, draining north between the Dunbar and Inferno Ridges and coalescing with Balish Glacier before entering the Splettstoesser Glacier. It was mapped by United States Geological Survey from surveys and...
| 79°29′S 84°17′W
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Schweitzer GlacierSchweitzer Glacier is a glacier which drains west along the north side of Littlewood Nunataks into Vahsel Bay. The Lerchenfeld Glacier, trending west-northwestward, coalesces with the lower portion of this glacier. Discovered by the German Antarctic Expedition, 1911-12, under Wilhelm Filchner. He...
| 77°50′S 34°40′W
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Schytt GlacierSchytt Glacier is a broad glacier about 60 miles long, flowing northward between Giaever and Ahlmann Ridge in Queen Maud Land to the Jelbart Ice Shelf. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from surveys and air photos by the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition and named for Stig V....
| 71°35′S 3°40′W
| 100 km
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Scott Glacier (Transantarctic Mountains)The Scott Glacier is a major glacier, 120 miles long, that drains the East Antarctic Ice Sheet through the Queen Maud Mountains to the Ross Ice Shelf...
| 85°45′S 153°0′W
| 190 km
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| 66°30′S 100°20′E
| over 32 km
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Seaton GlacierSeaton Glacier is a glacier 17 miles long, flowing southeast into Edward VIII Ice Shelf at the northwest part of Edward VIII Bay. It was mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936–37, remapped, 1954–58, by ANARE and named by ANCA in 1958...
| 66°43′S 56°26′E
| 27 km
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Sestrimo GlacierSestrimo Glacier is the 11 km long and 4 km wide glacier on the northwest side of Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula. Situated southwest of Ogoya Glacier, west-northwest of Broad Valley and north of Cugnot Ice Piedmont...
| 63°30′S 58°08′W
| 11 km
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Shabica GlacierShabica Glacier is a northern tributary glacier to the Clifford Glacier, joining it near its terminus just east of Mount Tenniel, in Palmer Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey in 1974. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Stephen V...
| 70°21′S 62°45′W
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Shackleton GlacierShackleton Glacier is a major Antarctic glacier, over long and from 8 to 16 km wide, descending from the polar plateau from the vicinity of Roberts Massif and flowing north through the Queen Maud Mountains to enter the Ross Ice Shelf between Mount Speed and Waldron Spurs. The Roberts Massif...
| 84°35′S 176°20′W
| over 96 km
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Shambles GlacierShambles Glacier is a steep glacier 4 miles long and 6 miles wide, with very prominent hummocks and crevasses, flowing east between Mount Bouvier and Mount Mangin into Stonehouse Bay on the east side of Adelaide Island...
| 67°20′S 68°13′W
| 6 km
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Shanklin GlacierShanklin Glacier is a glacier in the Hughes Range of Antarctica, flowing southeast from Mount Waterman to enter Muck Glacier at a point west of Ramsey Glacier....
| 84°37′S 176°40′E
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Shark Fin GlacierShark Fin Glacier is a named in association with the nearby mountain Shark Fin....
| 78°23′S 162°55′E
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Sharp GlacierSharp Glacier is a glacier flowing north to the head of Lallemand Fjord, close east of the Boyle Mountains, in Graham Land. Mapped by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from surveys and air photos, 1948-59. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Robert P. Sharp, American...
| 67°20′S 66°27′W
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Sharpend GlacierSharpend Glacier is an alpine glacier, 1.5 miles long, which flows into Alatna Valley from the south end of Staten Island Heights, in the Convoy Range, Victoria Land. Descriptively named from the pointed terminus of this glacier by a New Zealand Antarctic Research Program field party to the...
| 76°52′S 160°56′E
| 2.4 km
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Sheehan GlacierSheehan Glacier is a steep and extremely broken glacier draining from the vicinity of Miller Peak in the Explorers Range, Bowers Mountains, and entering the Rennick Glacier just south of Alvarez Glacier...
| 70°56′S 162°24′E
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Sheldon GlacierSheldon Glacier is a glacier flowing southeast from Mount Mangin into Ryder Bay, Adelaide Island, Antarctica. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1977 for Ernest B...
| 67°30′S 68°23′W
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Shell GlacierShell Glacier is a western lobe of the Mount Bird icecap. It descends steeply in the valley north of Trachyte Hill and Harrison Bluff in the center of the ice-free area on the lower western slopes of Mount Bird, Ross Island. Mapped and so named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic...
| 77°16′S 166°25′E
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Shinnan GlacierShinnan Glacier is a glacier which flows northwest to the coast just east of Shinnan Rocks and marks the division between Queen Maud Land and Enderby Land. Mapped from surveys and air photos by Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition , 1957–62, and named Shinnan Hyōga ....
| 67°55′S 44°38′E
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Shipley GlacierShipley Glacier is a glacier, 25 miles long, in the north-central Admiralty Mountains. The glacier drains the northern slopes of Mount Adam and flows along the east wall of DuBridge Range to Pressure Bay on the north coast of Victoria Land. Some of the glacier bypasses Pressure Bay and reaches...
| 71°26′S 169°12′E
| 40 km
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Shirase GlacierShirase Glacier is a large glacier entering Havsbotn, the bay that forms the head of Lutzow-Holm Bay in Antarctica. The area occupied by this feature was first mapped as a bay and named Instefjorden by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936-37. Surveys by JARE, 1957-62, revealed the large glacier...
| 70°5′S 38°45′E
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Shoemaker GlacierShoemaker Glacier is a tributary glacier in the Southern Cross Mountains, flowing east along the south side of Daley Hills to Aviator Glacier, in Victoria Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960-64. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names...
| 73°47′S 164°45′E
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Shoesmith GlacierShoesmith Glacier is the largest glacier on Horseshoe Island, flowing westward into both Lystad Bay and Gaul Cove. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1958 in association with Horseshoe Island....
| 67°51′S 67°12′W
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Shuman GlacierShuman Glacier is a glacier about 6 miles long draining through the Ruppert Coast north of Strauss Glacier. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Christopher A. Shuman, faculty, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, field and theoretical researcher...
| 75°15′S 139°30′W
| 10 km
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Sibelius GlacierSibelius Glacier is a glacier, 12 miles long and 6 miles wide, flowing south into Mozart Ice Piedmont 10 miles southwest of Mount Stephenson in the north part of Alexander Island. First seen from the air by the British Graham Land Expedition in 1937...
| 69°55′S 70°5′W
| 19 km
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Siemiatkowski GlacierSiemiatkowski Glacier is a glacier about 25 miles long, flowing northwest to Nickerson Ice Shelf on the coast of Marie Byrd Land. Mapped from surveys by the United States Geological Survey and U.S. Navy air photos . Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Edmond R. Siemiatkowski,...
| 75°54′S 144°12′W
| 40 km
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Sigmen GlacierSigmen Glacier is a 2.5 km long and 2 km wide glacier draining the northwest slopes of Brugmann Mountains on Liège Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. Flowing northwestwards to enter Palakariya Cove south of Bebresh Point and northeast of Beaumont Hill.The glacier is named after the...
| 64°01′S 61°56′W
| 2.5 km
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Sigyn GlacierSigyn Glacier is a broad glacier flowing north between the Drygalski Mountains and the Kurze Mountains in Queen Maud Land. It was mapped and named from surveys and air photos by Norwegian Antarctic Expedition after Sigyn in Norse mythology....
| 71°52′S 8°36′E
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Sikorski GlacierSikorski Glacier is a small glacier in the northeast part of Noville Peninsula, Thurston Island. It flows northeast to Bellingshausen Sea between Mounts Palmer and Feury. First roughly delineated from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946-47...
| 71°49′S 98°24′W
| "small"
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Sikorsky GlacierSikorsky Glacier is a glacier flowing into Hughes Bay north of Charles Point, on the west coast of Graham Land. Photographed by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition in 1956-57, and mapped from these photos by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey...
| 64°12′S 60°53′W
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Silk GlacierSilk Glacier is a glacier, 10 miles long, draining the east slopes of the Churchill Mountains between Mount Frost and Mount Zinkovich to enter Nursery Glacier. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Cdt. P.R.H. Silk, RNZN, commanding officer of HMNZS Endeavour II in Antarctic waters,...
| 81°9′S 158°55′E
| 16 km
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Simmons GlacierSimmons Glacier is a glacier draining northward between Mount Isherwood and Mount Strange in the east part of the Kohler Range, Marie Byrd Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1959-66. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Harry S...
| 75°0′S 113°36′W
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Simpson GlacierSimpson Glacier is a glacier, 6 miles long, in the Admiralty Mountains. It flows northward to the coast between Nelson Cliff and Mount Cherry-Garrard where it forms the Simpson Glacier Tongue. The latter feature was named by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, after Sir George Simpson,...
| 71°17′S 168°38′E
| 10 km
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Sirma GlacierSirma Glacier is the 7 km long and 4 km wide glacier on the west side of southern Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica, situated south of Bolgrad Glacier, and flowing west-southwestwards from Mount Southwick, Mount Milton and Mount Inderbitzen to join Nimitz Glacier.The glacier is...
| 78°47′S 85°05′W
| 7 km
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Skelton GlacierSkelton Glacier is a large glacier flowing from the polar plateau into the Ross Ice Shelf at Skelton Inlet on the Hillary Coast, south of Victoria Land, Antarctica.-Discovery and naming:...
| 78°35′S 161°30′E
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Škorpil GlacierŠkorpil Glacier is the 12 km long and 10 km wide glacier on Pernik Peninsula, Loubet Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula, situated northeast of Stefan Ice Piedmont and W of Solun Glacier...
| 66°38′S 66°16′W
| 12 km
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Slessor GlacierThe Slessor Glacier is a glacier at least 120 km long and 80 km wide, flowing west into the Filchner Ice Shelf to the north of the Shackleton Range. First seen from the air and mapped by the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1956...
| 79°50′S 028°30′W
| over 120 km
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Smith GlacierSmith Glacier is a low-gradient Antarctic glacier, over 160 km long, draining from Toney Mountain in an ENE direction to Amundsen Sea. A northern distributary, Kohler Glacier, drains to Dotson Ice Shelf but the main flow passes to the sea between Bear Peninsula and Mount Murphy, terminating at...
| 75°05′S 112°00′W
| over 160 km
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Socks GlacierSocks Glacier is a small glacier descending the east slopes of Queen Alexandra Range just north of Owen Hills to enter the west side of Beardmore Glacier. Discovered by the British Antarctic Expedition and named for one of the ponies taken with the South Pole Party...
| 83°42′S 170°5′E
| "small"
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Solun GlacierSolun Glacier is the 9.3 km long and 4 km wide glacier on Pernik Peninsula, Loubet Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula, situated east of Škorpil Glacier and northwest of McCance Glacier...
| 66°39′S 66°03′W
| 9.3 km
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Srebarna GlacierSrebarna Glacier on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica draining southeast of the Great Needle Peak and Serdica Peak in Levski Ridge, Tangra Mountains to enter Bransfield Strait between Aytos Point and M'Kean Point. Extending 2.3 km in southwest-northeast direction and 1.8...
| 62°41′S 60°02′W
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Stancomb-Wills GlacierStancomb-Wills Glacier is a large glacier that debouches into eastern Weddell Sea southward of Lyddan Island. The glacier was discovered in the course of the U.S. Navy LC-130 plane flight over the coast on November 5, 1967, and was plotted by United States Geological Survey from photographs...
| 75°18′S 19°0′W
| "large"
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Strandzha GlacierStrandzha Glacier is located on Burgas Peninsula, eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Extending 1.6 km in northeast-southwest direction and 800 m in northwest-southeast firection...
| 62°38′S 59°54′W
| 0.8 km
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Struma GlacierStruma Glacier is a glacier in eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica draining the area between Bowles Ridge and Melnik Ridge. The glacier is 4.8 km long and 1.5 km wide, flowing eastwards into Moon Bay south of Sindel Point and north of Elemag Point...
| 62°36′S 60°07′W
| 4.8 km
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Suess GlacierSuess Glacier is a glacier between Canada Glacier and Lacroix Glacier, flowing south into Taylor Valley in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was charted and named by the British Antarctic Expedition under Scott, 1910–13, for Professor Eduard Suess, noted Austrian geologist and paleontologist....
| 77°38′S 162°40′E
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Support Force GlacierSupport Force Glacier is a major glacier in the Pensacola Mountains, draining northward between the Forrestal Range and Argentina Range to the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf. Mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and US Navy air photos, 1956-66. Named by US-ACAN for the U.S...
| 82°45′S 046°30′W
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Suter GlacierSuter Glacier is a short glacier in the Mountaineer Range, Victoria Land, draining southeast into Lady Newnes Bay just south of Spatulate Ridge. Named by New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1966 for Douglas Suter, senior New Zealand scientist at Hallett Station, 1962-63....
| 73°31′S 167°10′E
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Sylwester GlacierSylwester Glacier is a glacier, 5 miles long, flowing north between Jacobs Nunatak and MacAlpine Hills into Law Glacier. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for David L. Sylwester, United States Antarctic Research Program aurora scientist at South Pole Station, winter 1961, and Byrd...
| 84°14′S 159°48′E
| 8 km
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Talev GlacierTalev Glacier is the 4 km long and 2.8 km wide glacier on Barison Peninsula, Graham Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula, situated west of Cadman Glacier and southeast of Butamya Glacier. It drains northeastwards, and flows into Beascochea Bay....
| 65°37′S 63°55′W
| 4 km
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Targovishte GlacierTargovishte Glacier is situated in Breznik Heights on Greenwich Island, and is bounded by Viskyar Ridge to the west, Vratsa Peak to the northeast, and Drangov Peak and Ziezi Peak to the east...
| 62°33′S 59°38′W
| 1.6 km
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Taylor GlacierThe Taylor Glacier is an Antarctic glacier about long, flowing from the plateau of Victoria Land into the western end of Taylor Valley, north of the Kukri Hills, south of the Asgard Range...
| 77°44′S 162°10′E
| 54 km
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Telemeter GlacierTelemeter Glacier is a small glacier 1 mile southwest of Fireman Glacier in the west part of Quartermain Mountains, Victoria Land, Antarctica. The name is one of a group in the area associated with surveying applied in 1993 by New Zealand Geographic Board ; telemeter being an instrument used to...
| 77°48′S 160°12′E
| 1.6 km
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Teteven GlacierTeteven Glacier is a glacier on Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica draining the north slopes of Dryanovo Heights into the Drake Passage in Haskovo Cove and Skaptopara Cove between Miletich Point and the ice-free area at Agüedo Point...
| 62°28′S 59°52′W
| 3.8 km
| 6.5 km wide
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Thamyris GlacierThamyris Glacier is a 3 km long and 2.8 km wide glacier draining the east slopes of the Trojan Range on Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. Situated east of Iliad Glacier, south of Rhesus Glacier and northwest of Kleptuza Glacier...
| 64°34′S 63°20′W
| 3 km
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Thomas GlacierThomas Glacier is a roughly Z-shaped glacier which drains the southeast slopes of Vinson Massif and flows for 17 nautical miles through the south part of the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains, leaving the range south of Johnson Spur. Discovered by U.S...
| 78°40′S 84°0′W
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Thwaites GlacierThwaites Glacier is an unusually broad and fast Antarctic glacier flowing into Pine Island Bay, part of the Amundsen Sea, east of Mount Murphy, on the Walgreen Coast of Marie Byrd Land. Its surface speeds exceed 2 km/yr near its grounding line, and its fastest flowing grounded ice is centred...
| 75°30′S 106°45′W
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Totten GlacierTotten Glacier is a large glacier off the Budd Coast of Wilkes Land in Australian Antarctica. It drains northeastward from the continental ice but turns northwestward at the coast where it terminates in a prominent tongue close east of Cape Waldron...
| 67°00′S 116°20′E
| 64 km
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Tucker GlacierTucker Glacier is a major valley glacier of Victoria Land, about 144 km long, flowing southeast between Admiralty Mountains and Victory Mountains to the Ross Sea...
| 72°32′S 169°15′E
| 144 km
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Tundzha GlacierTundzha Glacier is a glacier on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica which is bounded by Snow Peak to the west, Teres Ridge to the east and the glacial divide between the Drake Passage and Bransfield Strait to the south...
| 62°36′S 60°31′W
| 4.5 km
| 14 km wide
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Ueda GlacierUeda Glacier is a large glacier flowing eastward along the south side of the Scaife Mountains to enter Hansen Inlet near the base of Antarctic Peninsula. It was mapped by United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos from 1961-67 and named by Advisory Committee on...
| 75°15′S 64°35′W
| "large"
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Underwood GlacierUnderwood Glacier is a channel glacier about 15 miles long, flowing to the Antarctic coast between Reist Rocks and Cape Nutt. It was mapped in 1955 by G. D. Blodgett from aerial photographs taken by U.S...
| 66°35′S 108°0′E
| 24 km
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Union GlacierUnion Glacier , is a large, heavily-crevassed glacier which receives the flow of several tributaries and drains through the middle of the Heritage Range, Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. The glacier drains from the plateau at Edson Hills on the west side of the range and flows east between Pioneer...
| 79°45′S 082°30′W
| "large"
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Uranus GlacierUranus Glacier is a glacier on the east coast of Alexander Island, 20 miles long and 6 miles wide at its mouth, flowing east into George VI Sound immediately south of Fossil Bluff....
| 71°24′S 68°20′W
| 32 km
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Urdoviza GlacierUrdoviza Glacier is a glacier bounded by the eastern slopes of Oryahovo Heights on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and draining eastwards into Stoyanov Cove of Hero Bay between Agüero Point and Sandanski Point. The glacier extends 2.8 km in the east-west direction...
| 62°32′S 60°44′W
| 2.8 km
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Utopia GlacierUtopia Glacier is a glacier encircled by Mariner Hill, Syrtis Hill, Natal Ridge, and Ares Cliff; the feature was named for Utopia Planitia on the planet Mars, which was the landing site of the NASA Viking 2 Lander Mission on 3 September 1976...
| 71°51′S 68°16′W
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Utstikkar GlacierUtstikkar Glacier is a broad glacier flowing north from the vicinity of Moyes Peak in Antarctica and terminating in Utstikkar Glacier Tongue between Utstikkar Bay to the east and Allison Bay to the west....
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Van der Veen Ice StreamVan der Veen Ice Stream , formerly Ice Stream B1, is a large southeastern tributary to the Whillans Ice Stream in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Cornelis J...
| 83°50′S 130°00′W
| "large"
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Van Reeth GlacierVan Reeth Glacier is a tributary glacier about 20 nautical miles long, draining westward to Scott Glacier between Mounts Blackburn and Bowlin, in the Queen Maud Mountains. It was discovered in December 1934 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition geological party under Quin Blackburn, and was named by...
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Vanderford GlacierVanderford Glacier is a glacier about 8 km wide flowing northwest into the southeast side of Vincennes Bay, slightly south of the Windmill Islands. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Benjamin Vanderford, pilot of the sloop of war Vincennes of the United States...
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Verila GlacierVerila Glacier on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is bounded by Rotch Dome to the west, Casanovas Peak and Snow Peak to the north, and Ustra Peak to the southeast...
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| 4 km
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Vestreskorve GlacierVestreskorve Glacier is a broad glacier in the Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains, to the south of Breplogen Mountain, which drains from a position opposite the head of Austreskorve Glacier northwestward along the west side of Svarthamaren Mountain. Plotted and named from surveys and air photos by the...
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Veststraumen GlacierVeststraumen Glacier is a glacier about 45 miles long draining west along the south end of Kraul Mountains into Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf. The glacier was seen in the course of a U.S. Navy LC-130 plane flight over the coast on November 5, 1967, and was plotted by the United States Geological Survey ...
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Vetrino GlacierVetrino Glacier is a 3.2 km long glacier on Smith Island, South Shetland Islands draining the northwest slopes of Imeon Range north of Drinov Peak, northwest of Kostenets Saddle and west of Mount Pisgah and flowing into Drake Passage...
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Vidbol GlacierVidbol Glacier is the 5.5 km long and 1.5 km wide glacier on Arctowski Peninsula on Danco Coast in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula draining the north slopes of Pulfrich Peak...
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Wahl GlacierWahl Glacier is a glacier, 10 nautical miles long, flowing northwest from Grindley Plateau to enter upper Lennox-King Glacier westward of Mount Mackellar. It is named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Bruno W. Wahl , a German-American physicist and rocket scientist. In 1961-1962, Dr....
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Walk GlacierWalk Glacier is a glacier descending westward from Christoffersen Heights, to the south of Forbidden Rocks, in the Jones Mountains. Mapped by the University of Minnesota Jones Mountains Party, 1960-61. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Lieutenant Donald R. Walk, U.S. Navy,...
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Walter GlacierWalter Glacier is a glacier flowing east-northeast, merging with the south side of Moran Glacier to enter Schokalsky Bay, northeast Alexander Island. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Lieutenant Commander Howard J. Walter, U.S. Navy, LC-130 aircraft commander, Squadron VXE-6,...
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Wetmore GlacierWetmore Glacier is a glacier about 40 miles long, flowing southeast between the Rare Range and Latady Mountains into the north part of Gardner Inlet...
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Whillans Ice StreamWhillans Ice Stream , a glaciological feature of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, formerly known as Ice Stream B, renamed in 2001 in honor of Ohio State University glaciologist Dr. Ian Whillans.-Recent Research:...
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Williams Ice StreamWilliams Ice Stream is an ice stream about fifteen miles long flowing into Venable Ice Shelf just east of Fletcher Peninsula. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Richard S...
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Wilma GlacierWilma Glacier is the western of two glaciers entering the southern part of Edward VIII Ice Shelf in Kemp Land, Australian Antarctic Territory, East Antarctica. The other glacier is Robert Glacier.-Discovery and naming:...
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Wirdnam GlacierWirdnam Glacier is a glacier which drains the west slopes of the Royal Society Range between Mounts Moxley and Lisicky and flows west into Skelton Glacier. Mapped by United States Geological Survey from ground surveys and air photos. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Squadron...
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Wright Lower GlacierWright Lower Glacier is a stagnant glacier occupying the mouth of Wright Valley and coalescing at its east side with Wilson Piedmont Glacier, in Victoria Land. Formerly called Wright Glacier, but that name was amended by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition to distinguish...
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Wulfila GlacierWulfila Glacier is located on the southern slopes of Breznik Heights, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and is bounded by Oborishte Ridge to the northwest, Nevlya Peak to the north, Terter Peak and Razgrad Peak to the northeast, and Ephraim Bluff to the southeast...
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Yablanitsa GlacierYablanitsa Glacier is a 1.8 km long glacier on Smith Island, South Shetland Islands draining the northwest slopes of Imeon Range and flowing west of Drinov Peak into Cabut Cove. The feature is named after the town of Yablanitsa in northern Bulgaria....
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Yakoruda GlacierYakoruda Glacier is a glacier on the west slopes of Dryanovo Heights, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica extending 3.5 km in north-south direction and 2.5 km in east-west direction. Bounded by Greaves Peak, Hrabar Nunatak and Crutch Peak to the north, Lloyd Hill...
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Yamato GlacierThe Yamato Glacier is a glacier about 6 miles wide, flowing west between Mount Fukushima and Mount Eyskens in the Queen Fabiola Mountains of Antarctica....
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Yancey GlacierYancey Glacier is a precipitous glacier in Britannia Range, flowing east from the vicinity of Mount McClintock and then southeastward to enter Byrd Glacier just west of Sennet Glacier. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in association with nearby Byrd Glacier for the USS Yancey,...
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Yates GlacierYates Glacier is a glacier 3 miles south of Matheson Glacier, discharging into the west side of Lehrke Inlet on the east coast of Palmer Land. It was named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee after J. Yates, a British Antarctic Survey surveyor who worked in the general vicinity of...
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Yeats GlacierYeats Glacier is a tributary glacier about 8 miles long, flowing west from the north side of Mount Finley to enter Shackleton Glacier just north of Lockhart Ridge, in the Queen Maud Mountains. Named by F. Alton Wade, leader of the Texas Tech Shackleton Glacier Expedition , for Vestal L...
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Yoder GlacierYoder Glacier is a glacier with abrupt valley walls, 3 miles long, which is a western tributary to Kohler Glacier. Located just southwest of Morrison Bluff in the central part of Kohler Range, Marie Byrd Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey from ground surveys and U.S. Navy air...
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Young GlacierYoung Glacier is a glacier which flows east for 8 miles and terminates at the north end of Barnes Ridge on the east side of Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains. First mapped by United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1957-59. Named by Advisory Committee on...
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Yozola GlacierYozola Glacier is the 5 km long and 1.7 km wide glacier in Sofia University Mountains on Alexander Island in Antarctica draining north-northwestwards between Mount Braun and Balan Ridge to flow into Palestrina Glacier....
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Zaneveld GlacierZaneveld Glacier is a broad tributary glacier, flowing from the polar plateau northwest between Roberts Massif and Cumulus Hills to enter the upper part of Shackleton Glacier. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Jacques S...
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Zelee GlacierZelee Glacier is a glacier about 3 miles wide and 6 miles long, flowing north-northwest from the continental ice along the west side of Lacroix Nunatak and terminating in a prominent tongue at the west side of Port Martin...
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Zeller GlacierZeller Glacier is a glacier about 10 miles long, flowing west-northwest to enter the south side of Byrd Glacier just north of Mount Fries. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Edward J. Zeller, geologist at McMurdo Station, 1959-60 and 1960-61 seasons....
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Zenith GlacierZenith Glacier is a glacier which lies 1 mile west of Johnstone Glacier and drains south from the south end of Lanterman Range, Bowers Mountains...
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Zephyr GlacierZephyr Glacier 1 is a glacier, about 8 miles long, flowing westward from the southwest side of Mount Edgell into George VI Sound to the south of Cape Jeremy. The feature was surveyed by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey , 1948, and British Antarctic Survey , 1971-72; photographed from the air...
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Zetland GlacierZetland Glacier is a small hanging glacier on the southern slopes of Mount Alexandra in Denton Hills, Scott Coast. The glacier terminates on the cliffs north of Colleen Lake. The name, applied by New Zealand Geographic Board in 1994, is taken from an old spelling for the Shetland Islands of...
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Zheravna GlacierZheravna Glacier is a glacier on Greenwich Island, Antarctica. The glacier is bounded by Razgrad Peak to the west, Ilinden Peak and Momchil Peak to the north, and Viskyar Ridge to the east, extending 2 km in the east-west direction, and 1.8 km in the north-south direction...
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Zimzelen GlacierZimzelen Glacier is the 3.7 km long and 2.5 km wide glacier on Pefaur Peninsula, Danco Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula, situated east of Krapets Glacier and west of Blériot Glacier It drains northwards, and flowing into the east arm of Salvesen Cove.The glacier is named after the...
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Zinberg GlacierZinberg Glacier is a glacier in east Thurston Island; it flows east-northeast into Morgan Inlet between Tierney Peninsula and the promontory ending in Ryan Point. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Cpl. E. Zinberg, U.S. Army photographer in the Eastern Group of U.S...
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Zoller GlacierZoller Glacier is a glacier in the Cathedral Rocks between Emmanuel and Darkowski Glaciers, flowing north into the Ferrar Glacier of Victoria Land. Charted by the British Antarctic Expedition under Scott, 1910–13. Named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1964 for Lieutenant John E....
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Zonda GlacierZonda Glacier is a glacier about 8 miles long, flowing west-southwest between Fohn Bastion and Zonda Towers into George VI Sound. The glacier was included in surveys by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey , 1948, and British Antarctic Survey , 1971-72, and was photographed from the air by the...
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Zotikov GlacierZotikov Glacier is a tributary glacier, 8 miles long, flowing northeast from Mount Fisher in the Prince Olav Mountains and entering Liv Glacier just east of Hardiman Peak. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Igor A. Zotikov, Soviet exchange scientist to the United States Antarctic...
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Zuniga GlacierZuniga Glacier is a glacier flowing west-northwest into Dotson Ice Shelf between Jeffrey Head and Mount Bodziony on the west side of Bear Peninsula, Walgreen Coast, Marie Byrd Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump in 1947 and...
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Zykov GlacierZykov Glacier is a valley glacier about 25 miles long in the Anare Mountains, flowing northwest and reaching the coast between Cape Williams and Cooper Bluffs. Photographed by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1958, it was named for student navigator Ye. Zykov, who died in Antarctica, February...
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