Shambles Glacier

Shambles Glacier

Shambles Glacier (coord|67|20|S|68|13|W|type:glacier_region:AQ|display=inline,title) is a steep glacier 4 miles (6 km) long and 6 miles (10 km) wide, with very prominent hummocks and crevasses, flowing east between Mount Bouvier and Mount Mangin into Stonehouse Bay on the east side of Adelaide Island. The lower reaches of the glacier were first sighted and surveyed in 1909 by the French Antarctic Expedition under Charcot, and resurveyed in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). The upper reaches were mapped from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE), 1947-48, and by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE), 1956-57. So named by the FIDS because of the very broken nature of the glacier's surface.


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