Pluto Glacier

Pluto Glacier is a glacier on the east coast of Alexander Island in the British Antarctic Territory.

The glacier is ten nautical miles long and four nautical miles wide, and it flows slowly eastwards into the George VI Sound to the north of Succession Cliffs.

The glacier was first photographed from the air on 23 November 1935, by Lincoln Ellsworth and mapped from these photos by W.L.G. Joerg. It was roughly surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition.

The Pluto Glacier was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Pluto, then considered the ninth (and last) planet of the Solar System, following surveys by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1948 and 1949. The glacier is close to the Planet Heights though not amongst those mountains and was named in association with the mountain range along with many other nearby glaciers that are named after planets of the Solar System.

See also

• Mercury Glacier
• Venus Glacier
• Mars Glacier
• Jupiter Glacier
• Saturn Glacier
• Uranus Glacier
• Neptune Glacier

Location

• Location map: 71°7’0"S, 68°22’0"W

References

• Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Pluto Glacier