Gilbert Glacier

Gilbert Glacier (70°0′S 71°0′W) is a glacier about 20 nautical miles (37 km) long flowing south from Nichols Snowfield into Mozart Ice Piedmont, situated in northern Alexander Island, Antarctica.

Gilbert Glacier
Location of Gilbert Glacier in Antarctica
Location	Alexander Island
Coordinates	70°00′S 71°00′W
Length	20 nmi (37 km; 23 mi)
Thickness	unknown
Terminus	Mozart Ice Piedmont
Status	unknown

Photographed from the air by Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE), 1947–48, and mapped from these photographs by D. Searle of Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), 1960. Named in association with Sullivan Glacier, after W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911), the British librettist, by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC), 1977.^[1]

See also

• List of glaciers in the Antarctic
• Grotto Glacier
• Lennon Glacier
• Yozola Glacier
• Glaciology

Further reading

• M. Braun, A. Humbert, and A. Moll, Changes of Wilkins Ice Shelf over the past 15 years and inferences on its stability, The Cryosphere, 3, 41–56, 2009 www.the-cryosphere.net/3/41/2009/