Clifford Glacier

The Clifford Glacier is a broad glacier, about 40 nautical miles long, grinding slowly in an east-north-east direction to the gap between Mount Tenniel and the Eland Mountains, and then east to Smith Inlet on the east coast of Palmer Land in the British Antarctic Territory.

The upper part of this glacier was charted in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition under John Rymill; the seaward side by the United States Antarctic Service survey party which explored along this coast in 1940. During 1947 it was photographed from the air by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition under Finn Ronne, who in conjunction with the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey charted it from the ground.

The glacier was named in 1952 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey for Sir G Miles Clifford, who was then Governor of the Falkland Islands.

Location

• Location map: 70°22’60"S, 62°30’0"W

References

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