Adams Glacier (Victoria Land)
- Adams Glacier (Victoria Land)
Adams Glacier (coord|78|7|S|163|38|E|type:glacier_region:AQ|display=inline,title) is a small glacier immediately south of Miers Glacier in Victoria Land. The heads of these two glaciers are separated by a low ridge, and the east end of this ridge is almost completely surrounded by the snouts of the two glaciers, which nearly meet in the bottom of the valley, about 1 mile (1.6 km) above Lake Miers, into which they drain. Named by the New Zealand Northern Survey Party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1956-58) after Lieutenant (later Sir) Jameson B. Adams, second in command of the shore party of the British Antarctic Expedition (1907-09), who was one of the men to accompany Ernest Shackleton to within 97 miles (180 km) of the South Pole.
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