Chaos Glacier Explained

Chaos Glacier
Map:Antarctica
Mark:Blue_pog.svg
Location:Princess Elizabeth Land
Coordinates:-69.0167°N 78°W
Length:4nmi
Thickness:unknown
Terminus:Ranvik Bay
Status:unknown

Chaos Glacier is a glacier 4nmi south of Browns Glacier, flowing westward from Ingrid Christensen Coast into the central part of Ranvik Bay. It was mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936–37), and named by John H. Roscoe in a 1952 study of U.S. Navy Operation Highjump aerial photography of this coast. The name alludes to the jumbled, chaotic, appearance of the terminal glacial flowage.

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