Minnesota Glacier

Minnesota Glacier
Minnesota Glacier
	Location of Ellsworth Mountains in Western Antarctica
	Location of Minnesota Glacier in Antarctica
Location	Ellsworth Land
Coordinates	79°00′00″S 83°00′00″W / 79.00000°S 83.00000°W
Length	40 nautical miles (74 km; 46 mi)
Width	5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi)
Thickness	unknown
Terminus	Rutford Ice Stream
Status	unknown

Map of Heritage Range and Minnesota Glacier.

Map of Sentinel Range with upper Minnesota Glacier and its northern tributaries.

Minnesota Glacier (79°0′S 83°0′W / 79.000°S 83.000°W / -79.000; -83.000Coordinates: 79°0′S 83°0′W / 79.000°S 83.000°W / -79.000; -83.000) is a broad glacier, about 40 nautical miles (74 km; 46 mi) long and 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) wide, flowing east through the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica, separating the Sentinel Range and the Heritage Range. It is nourished by ice from the plateau west of the mountains and by Nimitz Glacier and Splettstoesser Glacier, and merges into the larger Rutford Ice Stream at the eastern margin of the Ellsworth Mountains.

The glacier was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis, which sent research parties to the Ellsworth Mountains in 1961–62, 1962–63 and 1963–64.^[1]

Tributary glaciers

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