Wales Glacier

Wales Glacier () is a short alpine

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 ...

just west of

Mount Barnes Kukri Hills () is a prominent east-west trending range, about long and over high, forming the divide between Ferrar Glacier on the south and Taylor Glacier and Taylor Valley on the north, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. The hills were discovered b ...

at the east end of the

Kukri Hills Kukri Hills () is a prominent east-west trending range, about long and over high, forming the divide between Ferrar Glacier on the south and Taylor Glacier and Taylor Valley on the north, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. The hills were discovered b ...

. It drains through

Wales Stream Wales Stream () is a meltwater stream that drains from Wales Glacier to Explorers Cove in New Harbour, Victoria Land. The name was used by New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. ...

, north into

Taylor Valley Taylor Valley is the southernmost of the three large McMurdo Dry Valleys in the Transantarctic Mountains, Victoria Land, Antarctica, located west of McMurdo Sound at approximately . The valley extends from Taylor Glacier in the west to McMurdo So ...

Victoria Land Victoria Land is a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from about 70°30'S to 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Antarctic Plateau. It ...

. Named by the British Antarctic Expedition (1910–13) under Scott. Glaciers of Victoria Land McMurdo Dry Valleys {{McMurdoDryValleys-geo-stub