Usher 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 ...

nearly 4 nautical miles (7 km) long, flowing northwest into the sea between

Stigant Point Stigant Point is a conspicuous point, 65 m high, lying south-west of Davey Point on the north coast of King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated contine ...

and

Davey Point Davey Point is a conspicuous rocky headland south-west of Round Point on the north coast of King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. History This feature was charted and named ''Round Island'' by Discovery Investigations ...

on the north coast of King George Island, in the

South Shetland Islands The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the nearest point of the South Orkney Islands. By the Antarctic Treaty of 195 ...

. Named by the

United Kingdom 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 ...

(UK-APC) in 1960 for J. Usher, Master of the Caraquet from Liverpool, who visited the South Shetland Islands in 1821–22.

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* Glaciers of King George Island (South Shetland Islands) {{KingGeorgeIslandAQ-glacier-stub

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