Alberts Glacier () is a heavily crevassed glacier in Antarctica. It is about long, and flows east from Avery Plateau, Graham Land, until entering

Mill Inlet Mill Inlet () is an ice-filled inlet which recedes in a northwesterly direction and is some wide at its entrance between Cape Robinson and Monnier Point, along the east coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It was charted by the Falkland Islands De ...

between

Balch Glacier Balch Glacier () is a glacier long, on the east coast of Graham Land, flowing southeast into Mill Inlet, to the south of Gould Glacier. History It was first surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1946–47, and named "East Bal ...

and

Southard Promontory Southard Promontory is a notable promontory, long and wide, which juts into northwest Mill Inlet between Breitfuss Glacier and Alberts Glacier, on the Foyn Coast, Graham Land. The promontory is bordered by steep rock cliffs which rise to a rel ...

History

The glacier was photographed from the air by the U.S. Navy in 1968. It was delineated from these photographs by Directorate of Overseas Surveys, 1980, and positioned from surveys by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, 1947–57. In association with the names of Antarctic historians around the area, it was named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Fred G. Alberts, an American toponymist, and secretary of the

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. History The committee was established ...

1949–80.

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