Casey Glacier

The Casey Glacier is a glacier six nautical miles wide, flowing gradually eastwards into Casey Inlet on the east coast of Palmer Land, within the British Antarctic Territory.

The glacier was discovered by Sir Hubert Wilkins on an aerial flight of 20 December 1928. Wilkins believed the feature to be a channel cutting completely across the Antarctic Peninsula, and so he named it the "Casey Channel", naming it after Rt. Hon. Richard G. Casey. Later correlation of aerial photographs taken by Lincoln Ellsworth in 1935 and preliminary reports of the British Graham Land Expedition, 1934–37, led W.L.G. Joerg to interpret this glacier shown in the photographs to be the feature which Wilkins had named the Casey Channel. This interpretation of Wilkins's discovery is borne out by the results of subsequent exploration by members of the East Base of the United States Antarctic Service in 1940, for which reason the feature is now known as the 'Casey Glacier'.

Location

• Location map: 69°0’0"S, 63°49’60"W

References

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