Bingham Glacier is a

glacier A glacier (; ) is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its Ablation#Glaciology, ablation over many years, often Century, centuries. It acquires dis ...

long flowing eastward to the east coast of the

Antarctic Peninsula The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctic ...

, with

Cape Reichelderfer Cape Reichelderfer is a rounded, mainly ice-covered headland 4 nautical miles (7 km) east of DeBusk Scarp, lying at the west side of Stefansson Strait on the east coast of Palmer Land. This cape was seen by Sir Hubert Wilkins who explored t ...

as its southern portal. The coast where Bingham Glacier reaches the

Larsen Ice Shelf The Larsen Ice Shelf is a long ice shelf in the northwest part of the Weddell Sea, extending along the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula from Cape Longing to Smith Peninsula. It is named after Captain Carl Anton Larsen, the master of the No ...

was photographed by

Sir Hubert Wilkins Sir George Hubert Wilkins MC & Bar (31 October 188830 November 1958), commonly referred to as Captain Wilkins, was an Australian polar explorer, ornithologist, pilot, soldier, geographer and photographer. He was awarded the Military Cross afte ...

in 1928 and by

Lincoln Ellsworth Lincoln Ellsworth (May 12, 1880 – May 26, 1951) was a polar explorer from the United States and a major benefactor of the American Museum of Natural History. Biography Lincoln Ellsworth was born on May 12, 1880, to James Ellsworth and Eva F ...

in 1935, and was mapped by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) under

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, who with

E.W. Bingham Surgeon Captain Edward W. Bingham , was a British Royal Navy officer and polar explorer who had the rare third clasp added to his Polar Medal. Biography Edward (Ted) William Bingham was born on 2 January 1901 in Dungannon, County Tyrone, the ...

sledged across the peninsula to a point close south of this glacier in 1936. It was also mapped in 1940 by the

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. The glacier was named by the

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in 1947 for Surgeon Lieutenant Commander

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, of the BGLE.

References

Glaciers of Palmer Land {{PalmerLand-geo-stub

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