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Glacier in Antarctica

Rhesus Glacier
Location of Brabant Island in the Antarctic Peninsula region
Location of Rhesus in Antarctica
Location	Palmer Archipelago
Coordinates	64°31′35″S 63°17′00″W / 64.52639°S 63.28333°W / -64.52639; -63.28333
Length	4 nmi (7 km; 5 mi)
Width	1 nmi (2 km; 1 mi)
Thickness	unknown
Terminus	Fournier Bay
Status	unknown

Rhesus Glacier (Bulgarian: ледник Резос, romanized: lednik Rezos, IPA: [ˈlɛdnik ˈrɛzos]) is a 7 km long and 2.5 km wide glacier draining the east slopes of the Trojan Range on Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica southeast of Paris Peak. Situated east of Iliad Glacier, south of Lipen Glacier and north of Thamyris Glacier. Flowing northeastwards into Fournier Bay south of Thompson Peninsula and north of Predel Point.

The glacier is named after the King Rhesus of Thrace in Homer's Iliad.

Location

British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map No. 3217. DOS 610 - W 64 62. Tolworth, UK, 1980.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.

Types

Anatomy

Processes

Measurements

Volcanic relations

Erosional	Arête Cirque Cirque stairway Crag and tail Finger lake Fjord Glacial horn Glacial lake Glacial striae Hanging valley Nunatak P-form Ribbon lake Roche moutonnée Suncup Tarn Trough lake Trough valley Tunnel valley U-valley Valley step Zungenbecken
Depositional	Drumlin Erratic block Moraine Moraine-dammed lake Pulju moraine Rogen moraine Sevetti moraine Terminal moraine Till plain Veiki moraine
Glaciofluvial	Alpentor Diluvium Esker Giant current ripples Kame Kame delta Kettle hole Outwash fan Sandur Urstromtal

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Alphabetic	List of glaciers in the Antarctic: A–H List of glaciers in the Antarctic: I–Z
By territory	Adélie Land Bouvet Island Coats Land Ellsworth Land Enderby Land Graham Land Heard Island and McDonald Islands James Ross Island and Graham Land Kaiser Wilhelm II Land Kemp Land Mac. Robertson Land Marie Byrd Land Oates Land Palmer Archipelago and Graham Land Palmer Land Princess Elizabeth Land Queen Elizabeth Land Queen Mary Land Queen Maud Land Ross Dependency South Georgia South Shetland Islands South Orkney Islands Trinity Peninsula and Graham Land Victoria Land Wilkes Land
Miscellaneous	List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands List of Antarctic ice rises List of Antarctic ice shelves List of Antarctic ice streams List of glaciers List of subantarctic glaciers

v t e Glaciers of the Palmer Archipelago and Graham Land

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