Merkur Glacier (West Antarctica)

Mercury glacier
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location	Alexander I Island , West Antarctica
length	8 kilometers
width	⌀ 3 km
Coordinates	71 ° 31 '59 " S , 68 ° 15' 58" W Coordinates: 71 ° 31 '59 " S , 68 ° 15' 58" W
drainage	George VI Sound

The Merkur Glacier is a glacier on the east coast of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . It flows east between the Keystone Cliffs and the Waitabit Cliffs to George VI Sound .

The US polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth saw it for the first time during an overflight on November 23, 1935. In 1948 and 1949, the first measurements by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) followed. The British geographer Derek Searle from FIDS mapped it in 1960 using aerial photographs from the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it after the planet Mercury in 1955 .

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