Bond Glacier () is a steep, heavily crevassed

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 ...

to the west of

Ivanoff Head Ivanoff Head () is a small rocky headland, or probable island, which lies along the coast and is partly overlain by continental ice, situated west of the Hatch Islands at the head of Vincennes Bay, Antarctica. The feature was first mapped from aeri ...

, flowing from the continental ice to Blunt Cove at the head of

Vincennes Bay Vincennes Bay is a large V-shaped bay, 105 km (65 mi) wide at its entrance between Cape Nutt and Cape Folger in Antarctica, marked by several large, steep glaciers near its head, lying along Knox and Budd Coasts. It was photographed f ...

. It was mapped from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump (1946–47), and named by 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 ...

for Captain Charles A. Bond,

U.S. Navy The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage o ...

, commander of the expedition's Western Group.

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* Glaciers of Wilkes Land {{WilkesLand-glacier-stub

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