Uranus glacier

Uranus glacier
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location	Alexander I Island ( West Antarctica )
length	32 km
width	Max. 10 km
Coordinates	71 ° 24 ′ S , 68 ° 33 ′ W Coordinates: 71 ° 24 ′ S , 68 ° 33 ′ W
drainage	George VI Sound

The Uranus Glacier is a 32 km long and up to 10 km wide glacier on the east coast of the Alexander I Island west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows east to George VI Sound , which it reaches just south of Fossil Bluff .

It may have been spotted for the first time by the US polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth , who photographed parts of the coast in question during an overflight on November 23, 1935. Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) roughly mapped the glacier estuary in 1936. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out further measurements between 1948 and 1949. The complete mapping was carried out in 1960 by the British geographer Derek Searle using aerial photographs taken during the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the glacier after the planet Uranus in 1955 .

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