Lancing Glacier

Lancing Glacier
Location of Lancing Glacier in South Georgia
Location	South Georgia
Coordinates	54°20′S 36°56′W / 54.333°S 36.933°W / -54.333; -36.933
Length	3 nmi (6 km; 3 mi)
Thickness	unknown
Terminus	Newark Bay
Status	unknown

Lancing Glacier (54°20′S 36°56′W / 54.333°S 36.933°W / -54.333; -36.933) is a glacier 3 nautical miles (6 km) long, flowing south from Mount Corneliussen and Smillie Peak to Newark Bay on the south side of South Georgia. It was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey in the period 1951–57, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for the Lancing (formerly Flackwell), built in 1898, and converted to a whale factory ship in 1923. It was the first factory ship to be fitted with a slipway.^[1][2]

See also[edit]

• List of glaciers in the Antarctic
• Glaciology

References[edit]

 This article incorporates public domain material from "Lancing Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.

This article about a glacier in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e