Uranus Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Uranus Glacier (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Glacier (12)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
Glacier on the E coast of Alexander Island, 20 mi long and 6 mi wide at its mouth, flowing E into George VI Sound immediately S of Fossil Bluff Probably first seen by Lincoln Ellsworth who flew directly over it and photographed segments of this coast on Nov. 23, 1935. The portion near the mouth of the glacier was first roughly surveyed in 1936 by the BGLE. Named by the UK-APC for the planet Uranus following resurvey of its lower portions by the FIDS in 1948 and 1949. The entire glacier was mapped from air photos taken by the RARE, 1947-48, by Searle of the FIDS in 1960.
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