Luke 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 ...

at least long, flowing northwest into the head of

Leroux Bay Leroux Bay () is a bay long in a northwest–southeast direction and averaging wide, between Nunez Point and the narrow Magnier Peninsula surmounted by the Magnier Peaks and Lisiya Ridge, along the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. The ...

on the west coast of

Graham Land Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee ...

, Antarctica. It is surmounted by Mount Chevreux on the south, Mount Perchot on the southwest and Mount Radotina on the northeast. The glacier was first sighted and roughly surveyed in 1909 by the

Fourth French Antarctic Expedition The French Antarctic Expedition is any of several French expeditions in Antarctica. 1837–1840 In 1837, during an 1837–1840 expedition across the deep southern hemisphere, Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville sailed his ship ''Astrolabe'' alo ...

. It was resurveyed in 1935–36 by the British Graham Land Expedition and later named for

George Lawson Johnston, 1st Baron Luke George Lawson Johnston, 1st Baron Luke, Order of the British Empire, KBE (9 September 1873 – 23 February 1943), was a British businessman. Early life and education Luke was born in Edinburgh, the second son of John Lawson Johnston, a butcher ...

of Pavenham, Chairman of Bovril Ltd, who contributed toward the cost of the expedition.

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Glaciers of Graham Coast {{GrahamCoast-glacier-stub