Gregory 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 ...

flowing into

Cierva Cove Cierva Cove () is a cove lying southeast of Cape Sterneck in Hughes Bay, just south of Chavdar Peninsula along the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. Shown on an Argentine government chart of 1950, it was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names ...

north of

Breguet Glacier Breguet Glacier () is a glacier flowing into Cierva Cove south of Gregory Glacier, on the west coast of Graham Land. It was shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 for Louis Bre ...

, on the west coast of

Graham Land Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and ...

, Antarctica. It was shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957. The glacier was named by the

UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) and ...

in 1960 for Hollingsworth Franklin Gregory, an American pioneer in the development and use of helicopters.James W. Williams,
A History of Army Aviation: From Its Beginnings to the War on Terror
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Gregory Glacier
Copernix satellite image

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Glaciers of Davis Coast {{GrahamLand-glacier-stub

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