COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

flowing SE and E into the W side of Ronne Ice Shelf between Sentinel Range (Ellsworth Mountains, Marie Byrd Land) and Fletcher Ice Rise, its terminal part only lying within BAT, was photographed from the air by USN in 1959 and subsequently, and partially mapped from air photographs; named Rutford Glacier after Robert Hoxie Rutford (b. 1933), Director, Division of Polar Programs, NSF, 1975-77; USGS geologist, Ross Sea area, 1959-60, Jones Mountains, 1960-63, Ellsworth Mountains and Ross Ice Shelf, 1973-74 and 1974-75; Vice-President for Research and Professor of Geology, University of Nebraska from 1977 (USBGN, 1969, p.181); completely mapped from USLANDSAT imagery of February 1974 and renamed Rutford Ice Stream (Swithinbank and others, 1976, p.297; USGS satellite-image map Ellsworth Mountains, 1976; Alberts, 1977, p.46; APC, 1980, p.5).

A major ice stream, about 180 mi long and over 15 mi wide, which drains southeastward between the Ellsworth Mountains and Fletcher Ice Rise into the southwest part of Ronne Ice Shelf. Named by US-ACAN for geologist Robert H. Rutford, a member of several USARP expeditions to Antarctica; leader of the University of Minnesota Ellsworth Mountains Party, 1963-64. Rutford served as Director of the Division of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation, 1975-77.