Venus Glacier
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Venus Glacier is a glacier on the east coast of Alexander Island in the British Antarctic Territory, ten nautical miles long and six nautical miles wide at its mouth flowing east into George VI Sound lying between Keystone Cliffs and Triton Point.
The coast in this vicinity was first seen from the air by Lincoln Ellsworth on 23 November 1935 and roughly mapped from photos obtained on that flight by W.L.G. Joerg. The glacier was first surveyed in 1949 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for the planet Venus, the second planet of the Solar System.
See also
- Mercury Glacier
- Mars Glacier
- Jupiter Glacier
- Saturn Glacier
- Uranus Glacier
- Neptune Glacier
- Pluto Glacier
Location
- Location map: 71°37’60"S, 68°15’0"W
References
- Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Venus Glacier
