Shackleton Glacier

Shackleton Glacier is a major Antarctic glacier that descends from the East Antarctic Ice Sheet on the Antarctic Plateau and flows north through the Queen Maud Mountains to the Ross Ice Shelf, ending between Mount Speed and Waldron Spurs. It runs more than 60 nautical miles, about 110 kilometers, long and 5 to 10 nautical miles wide, fed by tributary glaciers including the Zaneveld, Logie, McGregor, and Yeats, and features such as the Swithinbank Moraine and the Gemini Nunataks along its course. It was discovered during the United States Antarctic Service expedition of 1939 to 1941 and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for the explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, and it has since been used as a landing site for United States Navy aircraft. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/