page_title: Aviator Glacier
hierarchical_section_title: Aviator Glacier
caption_attribution_description: English: 1:250,000-scale topographic reconnaissance map of the Southern Cross Mountains area from 162°-166°30'E to 73°-74°S in Antarctica, including the Mountaineer Range with Mount Murchison, and Aviator and Campbell Glaciers. Mapped, edited and published by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the National Science Foundation.
context_page_description: Aviator Glacier is major valley glacier in Antarctica that is over 60 miles long and 5 miles wide, descending generally southward from the plateau of Victoria Land along the west side of Mountaineer Range, and entering Lady Newnes Bay between Cape Sibbald and Hayes Head where it forms the Aviator Glacier Tongue.
  A glacier is a mass of ice with sufficient thickness to flow away from the source area in lobes, tongues or masses. Glaciers are usually found at high latitudes or high elevations.
  The glacier was photographed from the air by Captain W.M. Hawkes, US Navy, on the historic first flight from New Zealand to McMurdo Sound on December 17, 1955. An attempt to reconnoiter it by helicopter and to land a party of the NZGSAE on it had to be abandoned when USS Glacier was damaged in pressure ice in December 1958. Named by NZGSAE, 1958–59, as a tribute to the hazardous work of pilots and other airmen in Antarctic exploratory and scientific operations.
context_section_description: Aviator Glacier is major valley glacier in Antarctica that is over 60 miles (97 km) long and 5 miles (8.0 km) wide, descending generally southward from the plateau of Victoria Land along the west side of Mountaineer Range, and entering Lady Newnes Bay between Cape Sibbald and Hayes Head where it forms the Aviator Glacier Tongue.
  A glacier is a mass of ice with sufficient thickness to flow away from the source area in lobes, tongues or masses. Glaciers are usually found at high latitudes or high elevations.
  The glacier was photographed from the air by Captain W.M. Hawkes, US Navy, on the historic first flight from New Zealand to McMurdo Sound on December 17, 1955. An attempt to reconnoiter it by helicopter and to land a party of the NZGSAE on it had to be abandoned when USS Glacier was damaged in pressure ice in December 1958. Named by NZGSAE, 1958–59, as a tribute to the hazardous work of pilots and other airmen in Antarctic exploratory and scientific operations.
caption: 1:250,000 scale topographic map of the Aviator Glacier and the Southern Cross Mountains
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