Endurance Glacier
Flowing body of ice on Elephant Island near Antarctica
61°10′S 55°8′W / 61.167°S 55.133°W / -61.167; -55.133
Endurance Glacier is a broad glacier north of Mount Elder, draining south-east to the south coast of Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica, and is the main discharge glacier on the island. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after HMS Endurance (Captain P.W. Buchanan, Royal Navy), which anchored off the glacier on several occasions in support of the Joint Services Expedition to Elephant Island, 1970–71.[1][2]
See also
- List of glaciers in the Antarctic
- Glaciology
References
- ^ "Endurance Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 1 March 2012.
- ^ "Endurance Glacier". Antarctic Gazetteer. Australian Antarctic Data Centre. Retrieved 1 March 2012.
This article incorporates public domain material from "Endurance Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
61°10′S 55°8′W / 61.167°S 55.133°W / -61.167; -55.133
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