Underwood Glacier
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Underwood Glacier () is a channel glacier about 15 miles (24 km) long, flowing to the Antarctic coast between Reist Rocks and Cape Nutt. It was mapped in 1955 by G. D. Blodgett from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump in 1947 and named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Lieutenant Joseph A. Underwood, U.S. Navy, who served on the sloop Vincennes of the United States Exploring Expedition (1838-42) under Lieutenant Charles Wilkes.
This article incorporates text from Underwood Glacier, in the Geographic Names Information System, operated by the United States Geological Survey, and therefore a public domain work of the United States Government.
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