The Ellen Glacier is a glacier in the central

Sentinel Range The Sentinel Range is a major mountain range situated northward of Minnesota Glacier and forming the northern half of the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. The range trends NNW-SSE for about and is wide. Many peaks rise over and Vinson Mass ...

of the

Ellsworth Mountains The Ellsworth Mountains are the highest mountain ranges in Antarctica, forming a long and wide chain of mountains in a north to south configuration on the western margin of the Ronne Ice Shelf in Marie Byrd Land. They are bisected by Minneso ...

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. It drains the eastern slopes of Mount Anderson and Long Gables and flows generally southeast for to Barnes Ridge, where it leaves the range and enters the south flowing Rutford Ice Stream. It was first mapped by the

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from surveys and

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air photos, 1957–59, and was named by the

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for Lieutenant Colonel Cicero J. Ellen of the U.S. Air Force, who was in command of many of the air operations when the

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was established by air drop in the 1956–57 season.

Tributary glaciers

* Pulpudeva Glacier *

Crosswell Glacier Crosswell Glacier () is a glacier long, flowing north-northeast from Mount Shinn between Sullivan Heights and Bearskin Ridge, in the central part of the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. Together with Patton and Pulpudeva G ...

* Patton Glacier * Rumyana Glacier * Delyo Glacier * Burdenis Glacier * Gerila Glacier * Fonfon Glacier * Arapya Glacier

External links

Ellen Glacier.
Copernix satellite image

References

* Glaciers of Ellsworth Land Ellsworth Mountains {{EllsworthLand-glacier-stub

Tributary glaciers

See also

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