Uranus Glacier
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Uranus Glacier () is a glacier on the east coast of Alexander Island, 20 miles (32 km) long and 6 miles (10 km) wide at its mouth, flowing east into George VI Sound immediately south of Fossil Bluff.
The glacier was pobably first seen by Lincoln Ellsworth, who flew directly over it and photographed segments of this coast on November 23, 1935. The portion near the mouth of the glacier was first roughly surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE). It was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for the planet Uranus following the resurvey of its lower portions by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1948 and 1949. The entire glacier was mapped from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE), 1947-48, by Searle of the FIDS in 1960.
This article incorporates text from Uranus 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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