Veststraumen 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 ...

about long draining west along the south end of

Kraul Mountains The Kraul Mountains () are a chain of mountains and nunataks that trend northeastward from Veststraumen Glacier for approximately in western Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. They were discovered by the Third German Antarctic Expedition Third or 3 ...

into

Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf is an ice shelf about 250 miles (400 km) long on the coast of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, extending from Cape Norvegia in the north to Lyddan Island and Stancomb-Wills Glacier in the south. Discovery and nam ...

. The glacier was seen in the course of a

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LC-130 plane flight over the coast on November 5, 1967, and was plotted by the

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(USGS) from photographs obtained at that time. In 1969, the

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. History The committee was established ...

(US-ACAN) gave the name "Endurance Glacier" to this feature (in remembrance of the ill-fated voyage of the Endurance in this part of

Weddell Sea The Weddell Sea is part of the Southern Ocean and contains the Weddell Gyre. Its land boundaries are defined by the bay formed from the coasts of Coats Land and the Antarctic Peninsula. The easternmost point is Cape Norvegia at Princess Martha C ...

in 1915), but that naming was rescinded because

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(UK-APC) gave the identical name to a small glacier on

Elephant Island Elephant Island is an ice-covered, mountainous island off the coast of Antarctica in the outer reaches of the South Shetland Islands, in the Southern Ocean. The island is situated north-northeast of the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, west-so ...

. The descriptive name "Veststraumen" (the west stream) appears on a 1972

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map.

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* Glaciers of Queen Maud Land Princess Astrid Coast {{PrincessAstridCoast-glacier-stub

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