The Ellen Glacier is a glacier in the central

Sentinel Range The Sentinel Range is a major mountain range situated northward of Minnesota Glacier and forming the northern half of the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. The range trends NNW-SSE for about and is 24 to 48 km (15 to 30 mi) wide. Man ...

of the

Ellsworth Mountains The Ellsworth Mountains are the highest mountain ranges in Antarctica, forming a long and wide chain of mountains in a north to south configuration on the western margin of the Ronne Ice Shelf in Marie Byrd Land. They are bisected by Minnesota ...

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. It drains the eastern slopes of Mount Anderson and Long Gables and flows generally southeast for to Barnes Ridge, where it leaves the range and enters the south flowing

Rutford Ice Stream Rutford Ice Stream () is a major Antarctic ice stream, about long and over wide, which drains southeastward between the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains and Fletcher Ice Rise into the southwest part of Ronne Ice Shelf. Named by US-ACAN ...

. It was first mapped by the

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from surveys and

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air photos, 1957–59, and was named by the

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for Lieutenant Colonel Cicero J. Ellen of the

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, who was in command of many of the air operations when the

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was established by air drop in the 1956–57 season.

Tributary glaciers

* Pulpudeva Glacier * Crosswell Glacier *

Patton Glacier Patton Glacier () is a broad tributary glacier in the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains. It drains the east slope of the main ridge between Mounts Ostenso and Tyree, flows east-northeastwards between Evans Peak and Versinikia Peak on the ...

Rumyana Glacier Rumyana Glacier ( bg, ледник Румяна, lednik Rumyana, ) is the long and wide glacier on the east side of north-central Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica, situated northwest of Patton Glacier and southeast of Dely ...

Delyo Glacier Delyo Glacier ( bg, Дельов ледник, Delyov lednik, ) is the 8 km long and 2.7 km wide glacier on the east side of the main crest of north-central Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It is situated northwest ...

* Burdenis Glacier * Gerila Glacier * Fonfon Glacier * Arapya Glacier

External links

Ellen Glacier.
Copernix satellite image

References

* Glaciers of Ellsworth Land Ellsworth Mountains {{EllsworthLand-glacier-stub

Tributary glaciers

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