Radian 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 ...

on the east side of the

Royal Society Range The Royal Society Range () is a mountain range in Victoria Land, Antarctica. With its summit at , the massive Mount Lister forms the highest point in this range. Mount Lister is located along the western shore of McMurdo Sound between the Koett ...

, descending from a high cirque just southeast of

Mount Rucker Mount Rucker is a mountain, , immediately south of Johns Hopkins Ridge in the Royal Society Range of Victoria Land. Discovered by the Discovery Expedition (1901–04) which named it for Sir Arthur Rucker, Honorary Secretary of the Royal Society. ...

and flowing east toward

Walcott Glacier Koettlitz Glacier is a large Antarctic glacier lying west of Mount Morning and Mount Discovery in the Royal Society Range, flowing from the vicinity of Mount Cocks northeastward between Brown Peninsula and the mainland into the ice shelf of McMurdo ...

. In the measurements made of this glacier by the

Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition The Antarctic Research Centre (ARC) is part of the School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington. Its mission is to research "Antarctic climate history and processes, and their influence on the global clima ...

(VUWAE) (1960–61), one of the survey angles, by chance, was exactly one radian, and the glacier came to be referred to by this term. Radian Ridge () is a ridge named in association with Radian Glacier.

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* Glaciers of Victoria Land Scott Coast {{ScottCoast-geo-stub