Canyon Glacier () is a narrow
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 to the
Ross Ice Shelf
The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica (, an area of roughly and about across: about the size of France). It is several hundred metres thick. The nearly vertical ice front to the open sea is more than long, and between hi ...
. It drains the northwest slopes of
Mount Wexler and moves northward between steep canyon walls of the
Separation Range and
Hughes Range to join the ice shelf immediately west of
Giovinco Ice Piedmont. The glacier was observed from nearby
Mount Patrick
Mount Patrick () is a massive, largely ice-covered mountain in the Commonwealth Range of Antarctica, rising to just east of Wedge Face Wedge Face () is a descriptive name for the prominent wedge-shaped rock spur that projects from Mount Patric ...
by the
New Zealand Alpine Club Antarctic Expedition (1959–60) who gave the descriptive name.
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References
Glaciers of Dufek Coast
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