Rosselin Glacier
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The Rosselin 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 southwest from the southern extremity of the Rouen Mountains into Palestrina Glacier in the northern portion of Alexander Island,
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. The glacier was first surveyed by the
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in 1975–76. The feature was named by the
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in late 1980 after F. Rosselin, Chief Engineer, FAE, 1908–10, in association with other FAE names in this area.


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List of glaciers in the Antarctic There are many glaciers in the Antarctic. This set of lists does not include ice sheets, ice caps or ice fields, such as the Antarctic ice sheet, but includes glacial features that are defined by their flow, rather than general bodies of ice. Th ...
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Coulter Glacier Coulter Glacier () is a steeply inclined glacier, long, flowing south from the Havre Mountains, northern Alexander Island, into Kolokita Cove in Lazarev Bay, Antarctica. The glacier was photographed from the air by the Ronne Antarctic Research Ex ...
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Gerontius Glacier Gerontius Glacier () is a glacier flowing north from the Elgar Uplands into Tufts Pass in northern Alexander Island, Antarctica. It was so named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1977, association with the nearby uplands, from ''The Dre ...
* Paulus Glacier Glaciers of Alexander Island {{AlexanderIsland-glacier-stub