The Goodenough Glacier () is a broad sweeping glacier to the south of the

Batterbee Mountains The Batterbee Mountains are a group of prominent mountains rising to , which forms part of the dissected edge of Dyer Plateau overlooking George VI Sound, on the west coast of Palmer Land. First seen and photographed from the air by Lincoln Ellswor ...

, flowing from the west shore of

Palmer Land Palmer Land () is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica that lies south of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This application of Palmer Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the Advisory Committee on Antarctic N ...

, Antarctica, into

George VI Sound George VI Sound or Canal Jorge VI or Canal Presidente Sarmiento or Canal Seaver or King George VI Sound or King George the Sixth Sound is a major bay/ fault depression, 300 miles (483 km) long and mainly covered by a permanent ice shelf. I ...

and the George VI Ice Shelf.

Location

The Goodenough Glacier is in the west of central Palmer Land on the

Rymill Coast Rymill Coast is that portion of the west coast of Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Jeremy and Buttress Nunataks. It runs northward from English Coast and east of Alexander Island across George VI Sound, encompassing the Batterbee Mountains. It ...

. It flows west from the Gutenko Mountains, at the south end of the

Dyer Plateau Dyer Plateau () is a broad ice-covered upland of north-central Palmer Land, bounded to the north by Fleming Glacier and Bingham Glacier, and to the south by the Gutenko Mountains. It is buttressed by Goettel Escarpment. History The plateau was ...

, to George VI Ice Shelf in

to the west. The

are to the north and the Seward Mountains are to the east. Features in or around the glacier include, clockwise from the northwest, Horne Nunataks, Bell Rock, Guthridge Nunataks, Blanchard Nunataks, Barrett Buttress and Buttress Nunataks.

Discovery and name

The Goodenough Glacier was discovered in 1936 by A. Stephenson,

Launcelot Fleming William Launcelot Scott Fleming (7 August 1906 – 30 July 1990) was a Scottish Church of England, Anglican bishop. He was the Bishop of Portsmouth (Anglican), Bishop of Portsmouth and later the Bishop of Norwich. He was also noted as a geol ...

, and George C.L. Bertram of the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) under

John Rymill John Riddoch Rymill (13 March 1905 – 7 September 1968) was an Australian polar explorer, who had the rare second clasp added to his Polar Medal. Early life Rymill was born at Penola, South Australia, the second son of Robert Rymill (7 J ...

, while exploring George VI Sound, and was named by Rymill after Margaret Goodenough, wife of Admiral Sir

William Goodenough Admiral Sir William Edmund Goodenough (2 June 1867 – 30 January 1945) was a senior Royal Navy officer of World War I. He was the son of James Graham Goodenough. Naval career Goodenough joined the Royal Navy in 1882. He was appointed Comman ...

, the latter being one of Rymill's principal supporters in raising funds for the expedition.

Features

Horne Nunataks

. A group of six nunataks in relative isolation, located on the north side of Goodenough Glacier, about inland from the west coast of Palmer Land. Named by the

UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) an ...

(UK-APC) for Ralph R. Horne, BAS geologist at the Adelaide and Stonington Island stations in 1964-65.

Bell Rock

. A very conspicuous and isolated nunatak on Goodenough Glacier, located east of Mount Ward. Named by UK-APC for Charles M. Bell, BAS geologist at Fossil Bluff, 1968-71.

Barrett Buttress

. A nunatak rising to high at the south margin of Goodenough Glacier, southwest of Blanchard Nunataks. The feature has a sheer northwest face high high; the southeast side is level with the snow plateau. Mapped by the

United States Geological Survey The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology. The agency was founded on Mar ...

(USGS) from United States Navy aerial photographs taken 1966-69. Named by the UK-APC in 1977 after Richard G. Barrett,

British Antarctic Survey The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national polar research institute. It has a dual purpose, to conduct polar science, enabling better understanding of list of global issues, global issues, and to provide an active prese ...

(BAS) surveyor at Stonington Island and Adelaide Island stations, 1974-76.

Buttress Nunataks

. Group of prominent coastal rock exposures, the highest high, lying close inland from George VI Sound and west-northwest of the Seward Mountains, on the west coast of Palmer Land. First seen from a distance and roughly surveyed in 1936 by the BGLE under Rymill. Visited and resurveyed in 1949 by the

Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey The Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) was an aerial survey of the Falkland Islands Dependencies The Falkland Islands Dependencies was the constitutional arrangement from 1843 until 1985 for administering the v ...

(FIDS), who gave this descriptive name.

References

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