Sheldon Glacier () is a

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flowing southeast from

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into

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Adelaide Island Adelaide Island is a large, mainly ice-covered island, long and wide, lying at the north side of Marguerite Bay off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. The Ginger Islands lie off the southern end. Mount Bodys is the easternmost mounta ...

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. Named by the

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(UK-APC) in 1977 for Ernest B. Sheldon,

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(BAS) meteorological observer, Adelaide Station, 1968–69, and

Stonington Island Stonington Island is a rocky island lying northeast of Neny Island in the eastern part of Marguerite Bay off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It is long from north-west to south-east and wide, yielding an area of . It was formerl ...

, 1969–70;

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, Adelaide Station, 1975–76, and

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, 1976–77. Prior to 1977, the glacier was called "Crumbles Glacier".Bryan, R. 1965. Observations on snow accumulation patterns at Adelaide Island. Brit. Antarc. Surv. Bull., 6, 51–62, page 51. At: http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/documents/bas_bulletins/bulletin06_07.pdf

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Glaciers of Adelaide Island {{GrahamLand-glacier-stub