Russell West Glacier
glacier in Antarctica
Russell West Glacier (63°40′S 58°50′W) is a glacier, 11 nautical miles (20 km; 13 mi) long and 4 nautical miles (7.4 km; 4.6 mi) wide, which lies immediately north of Detroit Plateau and flows from Mount Canicula westward into Bone Bay, on the north side of Trinity Peninsula. This glacier together with Russell East Glacier, which flows eastward into Prince Gustav Channel on the south side of Trinity Peninsula, form a through glacier across the north part of Antarctic Peninsula.
Location
Russell West Glacier flows west into the northwest shore of the western end of the Trinity Peninsula, which forms the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.
Its mouth is in Bone Bay on the Bransfield Strait, northeast of Charcot Bay, east of the Orléans Strait, south of Astrolabe Island and southwest of Lafond Bay.
It is bounded to the southwest by the Gavin Ice Piedmont.
The head of the glacier is between Allen Knoll and Sirius Knoll.
At its mouth it passes Wimple Dome to the north.
Copernix satellite view
Mapping and name
Russell West Glacier was first surveyed in 1946 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS).
It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Victor Ian Russell, surveyor and leader of the FIDS base at Hope Bay in 1946.
Russell was head of the Hope Bay station in 1946 and 1947.
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