Zelee Glacier
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Zelee Glacier () is a glacier about 3 miles (4.8 km) wide and 6 miles (10 km) long, flowing north-northwest from the continental ice along the west side of Lacroix Nunatak and terminating in a prominent tongue at the west side of Port Martin. Probably first sighted in 1840 by the French expedition under Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville, although no glaciers were noted on d'Urville's chart of this coast. Photographed from the air by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946-47. Charted by the French Antarctic Expedition under Liotard, 1949-51, and named for the Zelee, corvette which accompanied d'Urville's flagship, the Astrolabe.
Associated with it is the Zelee Glacier Tongue (), a glacier tongue about 2 miles (3.2 km) wide and 7 miles (11 km) long which extends seaward from Zelee Glacier. Delineated from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946-47, and named for the French corvette Zelee.
This article incorporates text from Zelee 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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