Weyerhaeuser Glacier

Weyerhaeuser Glacier is a large glacier flowing slowly north into the Mercator Ice Piedmont close west of Mobiloil Inlet, on the east coast of Antarctic Peninsula. Its course is in Graham Land, the northernmost continental part of the British Antarctic Territory.

This glacier lies in the area first explored from the air by Sir Hubert Wilkins in 1928 and Lincoln Ellsworth in 1935, but it was first clearly delineated in aerial photographs taken by the United States Antarctic Service in 1940. The glacier was sighted again in 1947 by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, led by Finn Ronne. Ronne named it for F. K. Weyerhaeuser, of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., who contributed lumber and insulating material to the expedition.

Location

• Location map: 68°45’0"S, 65°31’60"W

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