Craft Glacier

Craft Glacier
Map of Thurston Island
Location of Craft Glacier in Antarctica
Location	Ellsworth Land
Coordinates	72°12′S 101°22′W / 72.200°S 101.367°W / -72.200; -101.367
Length	5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi)
Thickness	unknown
Terminus	Peacock Sound
Status	unknown

Satellite image of Thurston Island.

Craft Glacier (72°12′S 101°22′W / 72.200°S 101.367°W / -72.200; -101.367Coordinates: 72°12′S 101°22′W / 72.200°S 101.367°W / -72.200; -101.367) is a valley glacier about 5 nautical miles (9 km) long, lying west of Hendersin Knob on Thurston Island and flowing south to Abbot Ice Shelf in Peacock Sound. It was first delineated from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump in December 1946, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Ensign Charles Craft, U.S. Navy, a helicopter pilot on USS Glacier who made exploratory flights at Thurston Island in February 1960.^[1]

See also

• List of glaciers in the Antarctic
• Glaciology

Maps

• Thurston Island – Jones Mountains. 1:500000 Antarctica Sketch Map. US Geological Survey, 1967.
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.

References

•  This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Craft Glacier" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).