Gopher Glacier () is a

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 ...

descending from Christoffersen Heights and draining north between Bonnabeau Dome and

Anderson Dome Anderson Dome is a prominent ice-covered dome mountain rising to on the east side of Gopher Glacier, east of the similar-appearing Bonnabeau Dome, in the Jones Mountains in Antarctica. It was mapped by the University of Minnesota Jones Mountain ...

, in the

Jones Mountains The Jones Mountains are an isolated group of mountains, trending generally east–west for 43 km (27 mi), situated on the Eights Coast, Ellsworth Land, about 80 km (50 mi) south of Dustin Island in Antarctica. The charts of th ...

of Antarctica. It was mapped and named by the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

Jones Mountains Party, 1960–61; "

Gopher Pocket gophers, commonly referred to simply as gophers, are burrowing rodents of the family Geomyidae. The roughly 41 speciesSearch results for "Geomyidae" on thASM Mammal Diversity Database are all endemic to North and Central America. They are ...

" is the nickname of the University of Minnesota and of the State.

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

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