Blue Glacier is a large
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 ...
which flows into
Bowers Piedmont Glacier
Bowers Piedmont Glacier is a piedmont glacier on the coast of Victoria Land, covering about and lying just south of New Harbour (Antarctica), New Harbour. It merges at its south side with Blue Glacier (Antarctica), Blue Glacier.
It was discovere ...
about south of
New Harbour, in
Victoria Land
Victoria Land is a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from about 70°30'S to 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Antarctic Plateau. It ...
,
Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest contine ...
.
Robbins Hill Robbins Hill () is a hill, 3 nautical miles (6 km) long, which is the East-most rock unit on the north side of the terminus of Blue Glacier, on Scott Coast, Victoria Land. The feature rises to 1140 m in the west portion. Named after Rob Robbin ...
is the East-most rock unit on the north side of the terminus of the glacier.
It was discovered by the
British National Antarctic Expedition
The ''Discovery'' Expedition of 1901–1904, known officially as the British National Antarctic Expedition, was the first official British exploration of the Antarctic regions since the voyage of James Clark Ross sixty years earlier (1839–18 ...
under
Robert Falcon Scott
Captain Robert Falcon Scott, , (6 June 1868 – c. 29 March 1912) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the ''Discovery'' expedition of 1901–1904 and the ill-fated ''Terra Nov ...
, 1901–04, who gave it this name because of its clear blue ice at the time of discovery.
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Glaciers of Scott Coast
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