Dibble Glacier in Antarctica is a prominent channel

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 ...

flowing from the continental ice and terminating in a prominent tongue at the east side of

Davis Bay Salmon Bay is a bay about wide at the entrance between Cape Cesney and Lewis Island in Antarctica. It was discovered from the ''Aurora'' by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1910–14) under Douglas Mawson, and named ''Davis Bay'' by Maws ...

. It was delineated from air photos taken by

U.S. Navy Operation Highjump Operation HIGHJUMP, officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946–1947, (also called Task Force 68), was a United States Navy (USN) operation to establish the Antarctic research base Little America IV. The opera ...

(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 Jonas Dibble, ship's carpenter on the sloop ''Peacock'' of the

United States Exploring Expedition The United States Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842 was an exploring and surveying expedition of the Pacific Ocean and surrounding lands conducted by the United States. The original appointed commanding officer was Commodore Thomas ap Catesby ...

(1838–42) under

Charles Wilkes Charles Wilkes (April 3, 1798 – February 8, 1877) was an American naval officer, ship's captain, and explorer. He led the United States Exploring Expedition (1838–1842). During the American Civil War (1861–1865), he commanded ' during the ...

. Dibble is credited with leaving his sick bed and working 24 hours without relief with other carpenters to repair a broken rudder on the ''Peacock'', when the ship was partially crushed in an ice bay in 151°19′E and forced to retire northward.

Important Bird Area

A 500 ha site on fast ice about 5 km from the north-eastern margin of the glacier has been designated an

Important Bird Area An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations. IBA was developed and sites are identified by BirdLife Int ...

(IBA) by

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because it supports a breeding colony of

emperor penguin The emperor penguin (''Aptenodytes forsteri'') is the tallest and heaviest of all living penguin species and is endemic to Antarctica. The male and female are similar in plumage and size, reaching in length and weighing from . Feathers of th ...

s, with an estimate of some 12,500 individuals based on 2009 satellite imagery.

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* Important Bird Areas of Antarctica Penguin colonies Glaciers of Wilkes Land {{WilkesLand-glacier-stub

Important Bird Area

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