Gildea Glacier is a 10 km long and 5 km wide Antarctic glacier flowing southwestward from Craddock Massif between Mount Slaughter and Mount Atkinson into Nimitz Glacier, Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains. The upper portion of the glacier also receives ice from Hammer Col and southern Vinson Massif.
Named by the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Damien Gildea, Australian leader of several Omega Foundation expeditions to Sentinel Range and Livingston Island in 2000-2007. He made an ascent of Mount Craddock via this glacier in 2005, and directed the preparation of a 1:50,000-scale map of the Vinson Massif area for publication by the Omega Foundation in 2006.
This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Gildea Glacier" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).