Mars Glacier is a glacier in the southeastern corner of Alexander Island, Antarctica, about 6 nautical miles (11 km) long and 2 nautical miles (4 km) wide, flowing south between Two Step Cliffs and Phobos Ridge into the George VI Ice Shelf. It was first sighted from the air by Lincoln Ellsworth on November 23, 1935, mapped from aerial photographs, and surveyed in 1949 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey; the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it, along with many nearby glaciers and landmarks, after a planet, in this case Mars, following a local naming pattern of planets, satellites and astrophysicists.
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