Mill Glacier
Glacier in Antarctica
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::summary Glacier in Antarctica ::
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| Field | Value |
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| map | Antarctica |
| map_caption | Location of the Mill Glacier in Antarctica |
| terminus | Beardmore Glacier |
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| name = | other_name = | photo = | photo_width = | photo_alt = | photo_caption = | type = | location = | coordinates = | coords_ref = | map = Antarctica | map_width = | map_alt = | map_caption = Location of the Mill Glacier in Antarctica | mark = | area = | length = | width = | thickness = | terminus = Beardmore Glacier | status = Mill Glacier () is a tributary glacier, 10 nmi wide, flowing northwest between the Dominion Range and the Supporters Range into Beardmore Glacier, Antarctica. It was discovered by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907–09, and named for Hugh Robert Mill, a British geographer and Antarctic historian.
Course
The Grosvenor Mountains, a group of widely scattered mountains and nunataks, rises above the polar plateau east of the head of Mill Glacier. The Mill Glacier is a valley glacier that flows down from the Grosvenor Mountains past Otway Massif, then between the Dominion Range and Supporters Range before joining the Beardmore Glacier. The head of the glacier is crossed by the Scott Icefalls. From there it flows northwest between the Dominion Range to the west and the Otway Massif to the east. The Mill Stream Glacier, which is fed from the south by the Burgess Glacier, joins the Mill Glacier from the east to the north of the Otway Massif. The Vandement Glacier and the Koski Glacier enter from the Dominion Range to the west. The Mill Glacier flows past the Supporters Range to the east to join the Beardmore Glacier from the southeast at Plunket Point.
Airfield potential
Over large areas the Mill Glacier has very smooth ice, free of crevasses. Just upstream of Plunket Point, where it joins the Beardmore, there is an area of smooth and level blue ice over 7 km long in a NNW-SSE direction that is suitable for an airfield. The ice thickness seems to be about 650 m. The runway faces directly into the wind. It appears to be a useful alternative to Mount Howe in an emergency. During the Shackleton Glacier Project, 1995-1996, Lockheed LC-130 aircraft placed fuel caches on the Mill Glacier.
Tributaries
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/USGS_Plunket_Point.pdf" caption="Southern head of the glacier (northwest corner of map)"] ::
Scott Icefalls
Mill Stream Glacier
Burgess Glacier
Vandement Glacier
Main article: Vandament Glacier
Koski Glacier
References
Sources
- {{citation|url=https://pubs.usgs.gov/fedgov/70039167/report.pdf |accessdate=2023-12-03 |edition=2 |editor-last=Alberts |title=Geographic Names of the Antarctic |editor-first=Fred G. |publisher=United States Board on Geographic Names |year=1995}}
- {{citation |url=https://www.nsf.gov/geo/opp/antarct/ajus/nsf9828/9828html/a1.htm |accessdate=2023-12-25 |last=Elliot |first=David H. |title=Shackleton Glacier Project, 1995-1996 |year=1996 |publisher=Byrd Polar Research Center and Department of Geological Sciences, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio}}
- {{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c-JSyv8v28kC&pg=PA27 |accessdate=2023-12-25 |last=Mellor |first=Malcolm |title=Airfields on Antarctic Glacier Ice |publisher=Cold Regions Research & Engineering Laboratory |year=1989}}
- {{citation |url=https://data.pgc.umn.edu/maps/antarctica/usgs/03/pdf/Plunket%20Point.pdf |accessdate=2023-12-25 |title=Plunket Point |publisher=USGS: United States Geological Survey|ref= }}
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