Evans Glacier () is a gently-sloping

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long and wide, draining the southeast slopes of Travnik Buttress eastwards between Rugate Ridge and Poibrene Heights to flow into Vaughan Inlet on the east coast of

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. It was discovered by

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in an aerial flight, December 20, 1928, and named "Evans Inlet" by him for E.S. Evans of

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. A further survey by the

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in 1955 reported that this low-lying area is not an inlet, but is formed by the lower reaches of Hektoria Glacier and the feature now described.

* Defense Mapping Agency 1992,
Sailing Directions (planning Guide) and (enroute) for Antarctica
', P 276 * Wolfgang Rack,
Dynamic Behavior and Disintegration of the Northern Larsen Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula
'', Innsbruck, October 2000 * Jane G. Ferrigno, Alison J. Cook, Amy M. Mathie, Richard S. Williams, Jr., Charles Swithinbank, Kevin M. Foley, Adrian J. Fox, Janet W. Thomson, and Jörn Sievers,
Coastal-Change and Glaciological Map of the Larsen Ice Shelf Area, Antarctica: 1940–2005
', U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Investigations Series Map I–2600–B, 1 map sheet, 28-p. text. * Etienne Berthier, Ted A. Scambos, Christopher A. Shuman,
Mass loss of Larsen B tributary glaciers (Antarctic Peninsula) unabated since 2002
'', GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 39, L13501, doi:10.1029/2012GL051755, 2012

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