Weir Glacier

Weir 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 ...

8 nautical miles (15 km) long, flowing north into the south part of

Barilari Bay Barilari Bay () is a bay long and wide, between Cape Garcia and Loqui Point on the west coast of Graham Land. The glaciers Birley, Lawrie, Weir and Bilgeri feed the bay. It was discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, and ...

between

Prestoy Point Prestoy Point ( bg, нос Престой, ‘Nos Prestoy’ \'nos pre-'stoy\) is the sharp point projecting 800 m into the head of Barilari Bay on Graham Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-po ...

and Byaga Point, on the west coast of

Graham Land Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and ...

. First sighted and roughly charted in 1909 by the French Antarctic Expedition under Charcot. It was surveyed in 1935-36 by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) under Rymill and later named for William D. Weir, 1st

Viscount Weir Viscount Weir, of Eastwood in the County of Renfrew, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 25 June 1938 for the Scottish businessman, public servant, politician and former President of the Air Council, William Weir ...

of Eastwood, and his son, the Hon. James K. Weir, who contributed toward the cost of the BGLE, 1934–37. Glaciers of Graham Coast {{GrahamCoast-glacier-stub