Rotz Glacier

Rotz Glacier is a tributary glacier 9 nautical miles long and 2 nautical miles wide which flows slowly westwards from the Wakefield Highland, in the centre of the Antarctic Peninsula, into Airy Glacier at a point due south of Mount Timosthenes. Its course is within Palmer Land, part of the British Antarctic Territory.

The glacier was photographed by Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition on 27 November 1947 (Trimetrogon air photography) and surveyed by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in December 1958 and November 1960.

Rotz Glacier was named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Jean Rotz, a 16th century French chartmaker and writer on the principles of navigation. Rotz designed an elaborate magnetic compass and became hydrographer to King Henry VIII in 1542.

Location

• Location map: 69°16’60"S, 65°43’0"W

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