Long Glacier

Long Glacier
Map of Thurston Island
Location of Long Glacierin Antarctica
Location	Ellsworth Land
Coordinates	72°30′00″S 96°43′00″W / 72.50000°S 96.71667°W / -72.50000; -96.71667
Length	8 nautical miles (15 km; 9.2 mi)
Thickness	unknown
Terminus	Abbot Ice Shelf
Status	unknown

Satellite image of Thurston Island.

Long Glacier (72°30′S 96°43′W / 72.500°S 96.717°W / -72.500; -96.717Coordinates: 72°30′S 96°43′W / 72.500°S 96.717°W / -72.500; -96.717) is a glacier about 8 nautical miles (15 km; 9.2 mi) long in the southeastern part of Thurston Island, Antarctica. It flows south to the Abbot Ice Shelf, 14 nautical miles (26 km) west of Harrison Nunatak. The glacier was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–66, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Fred A. Long, Jr., an aviation machinist of U.S. Navy Squadron VX-6, who wintered at Little America V in 1957 and was in Antarctica in the 1960–61 and 1962–63 seasons.^[1]

Long Bluff is a conspicuous rock bluff on the west side of Long Glacier. It was named by US-ACAN after W.A. Long, Chief Pharmacist's Mate in the Eastern Group of U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47. Assigned to the January 11, 1947 search flight commanded by Lieutenant James L. Ball, Long was the first to sight the wreck of PBM Mariner seaplane George One on Noville Peninsula, leading to the rescue of its survivors.^[2]

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 "Long Glacier" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).