Mertz Glacier
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Mertz Glacier () is a heavily crevassed glacier in Antarctica, about 45 miles long and averaging 20 miles wide. It reaches the sea between Cape De la Motte and Cape Hurley where it continues as a large glacier tongue. The Mertz Glacier Tongue () is about 45 miles long and 25 miles wide.
The glacier was discovered by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-14) under Douglas Mawson, who named it for Xavier Mertz, a member of the expedition who lost his life on January 7, 1913, on the far-east sledge journey
The Mertz-Ninnis Valley () is an undersea valley named in association with the Mertz Glacier and the Ninnis Glacier
- This article is based on a United States Geological Survey gazetteer.
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