Neptune glacier

Neptune glacier
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location	Alexander I Island , West Antarctica
length	19 km
width	⌀ 6.5 km
Coordinates	71 ° 43 ′ S , 68 ° 28 ′ W Coordinates: 71 ° 43 ′ S , 68 ° 28 ′ W
drainage	George VI Sound

The Neptune Glacier is a glacier on the east coast of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . It flows in an easterly direction to George VI Sound , which it reaches south of Triton Point .

The US polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth saw him for the first time during an overflight on November 23, 1935. The resulting photographs were used by Ellsworth's compatriot, the geographer WLG Joerg , for rough mapping. In 1949, a survey by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) followed. The area where the glacier was formed was mapped by the British geographer Derek Searle from FIDS in 1960 using aerial photographs taken during the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948) under the direction of the US polar explorer Finn Ronne . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it after the planet Neptune in 1955 .

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