Eros glacier

Eros glacier
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location	Alexander I Island , West Antarctica
Mountains	Planet Heights
length	11 km
width	Max. 3 km
Coordinates	71 ° 16 ′ S , 68 ° 22 ′ W Coordinates: 71 ° 16 ′ S , 68 ° 22 ′ W
drainage	George VI Sound , Bellingshausen Lake

The Eros Glacier is an 11 km long and at its mouth 3 km wide glacier on the east coast of Alexander I Island west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows from Planet Heights in a southeast direction to George VI Sound , which it reaches immediately north of Fossil Bluff .

The US polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth probably saw him for the first time during his transantarctic flight on November 23, 1935. Ellsworth flew directly overhead and made aerial photographs of objects north and south of the glacier. The estuary explored and mapped 1936 participants of the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill . The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) repeated this in 1948 and 1949. The British geographer Derek Searle of FIDS made a detailed mapping in 1960 using aerial photographs of the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1961 in connection with the naming of the Pluto and Uranus glaciers after the asteroid (433) Eros .

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