Silk Glacier () is a glacier, 10 miles (16 km) long, draining the east slopes of the

Churchill Mountains The Churchill Mountains are a mountain range group of the Transantarctic Mountains System, located in the Ross Dependency region of Antarctica. They border on the western side of the Ross Ice Shelf, between Byrd Glacier and Nimrod Glacier. Seve ...

between Mount Frost and Mount Zinkovich to enter

Nursery Glacier Nursery Glacier () is a coastal glacier in the Churchill Mountains of Anarctica. Location The glacier is about 20 nautical miles (37 km) long. It flows southeast along the west side of Darley Hills to enter Ross Ice Shelf just south of Cape ...

. Named by

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. History The committee was established ...

(US-ACAN) for Cdt. P.R.H. Silk, RNZN, commanding officer of HMNZS Endeavour II in Antarctic waters, 1963–64.Silk Glacier
'' Geographic Names Information System''. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2018-01-15

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