Neptune Glacier

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

The glacier is twelve nautical miles long and four nautical miles wide, flowing slowly eastwards into George VI Sound and the George VI Ice Shelf to the south of Triton Point.

The glacier was first sighted 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 mouth of the glacier was positioned in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition. The head of the glacier was mapped from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, 1947–48, and by Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960.

The glacier was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for the planet Neptune following a survey by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1949. The Neptune Glacier is close to the Planet Heights, though not amongst those mountains, and it was given its name by association with the mountain range, as have been many other nearby glaciers named after planets of the Solar System, and other nearby landforms named in association with these glaciers.

See also

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

Location

• Location map: 71°43’60"S, 68°16’60"W

References

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