Scott Glacier () is a
glacier
A glacier (; or ) is a persistent body of dense ice, a form of rock, that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. It acquires ...
, wide and over long, flowing north-northwest to the
Antarctic
The Antarctic (, ; commonly ) is the polar regions of Earth, polar region of Earth that surrounds the South Pole, lying within the Antarctic Circle. It is antipodes, diametrically opposite of the Arctic region around the North Pole.
The Antar ...
coast between
Denman Glacier
Denman Glacier is a glacier that is wide, descending north some , which debouches into the Shackleton Ice Shelf east of David Island, Queen Mary Land. It was discovered in November 1912 by the Western Base party of the Australasian Antarctic Expe ...
and
Mill Island. It was discovered by the
Western Base Party of the
Australasian Antarctic Expedition
The Australasian Antarctic Expedition was a 1911–1914 expedition headed by Douglas Mawson that explored the largely uncharted Antarctic coast due south of Australia. Mawson had been inspired to lead his own venture by his experiences on Ernest ...
(1911–1914) under
Mawson
Sir Douglas Mawson (5 May 1882 – 14 October 1958) was a British-born Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer, and academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Sir Ernest Shackleton, he was a key expedition leader during ...
and named for Capt.
Robert F. Scott.
Mouth
Cape Hoadley
.
Prominent rock coastal outcrop forming the west portal of the valley occupied by Scott Glacier.
Discovered by the Western Base Party of the AAE under Mawson in November 1912, and named by him for C.A. Hoadley, geologist with the Western Base Party. Not: Cape Hoadky.
Edisto Ice Tongue
An ice tongue along the northwest margin of
Bunger Hills
Bunger Hills, also known as Bunger Lakes or Bunger Oasis, is a coastal range on the Knox Coast in Wilkes Land in Antarctica, consisting of a group of moderately low, rounded coastal hills, overlain by morainic drift and notably ice free througho ...
where it occupies the southwestern portion of Edisto Channel, in the Highjump Archipelago.
The ice tongue is a seaward extension of the flow of
Apfel Glacier as well as part of the main flow of Scott Glacier.
Mapped from air photos taken by USN Operation Highjump, 1946-47.
Named by US-ACAN in association with Edisto Channel.
Chugunov Island
.
Small ice-covered island, lying at the seaward extremity of Shackleton Ice Shelf, between the projections of Denman and Scott Glaciers.
Mapped from aerial photos taken by USN OpHjp, 1946-47.
Rephotographed by the Soviet expedition of 1956 and later named for N.A. Chugunov, aerologist who lost his life in the Antarctic in 1958.
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Glaciers of Queen Mary Land