Russell West Glacier was first surveyed in 1946 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS).
It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Victor Ian Russell, surveyor and leader of the FIDS base at Hope Bay in 1946.[1]
Russell was head of the Hope Bay station in 1946 and 1947.
In April 1946 Russell led a party of four that, despite gales and snow, found a route across the northern Antarctic Peninsula via what is now called Russell East Glacier.
In July and August 1946 Russel reached the west coast via what is now called Russell West Glacier.[4]
Glaciology
Russell West Glacier is in the moist climatic region of the west coast of Trinity Peninsula.
In this area rime ice is deposited in huge masses on the northwest faces of nunataks, and these occasionally break off and join the glacier ice below the nunatak.
In the late 1950s an ice block measuring 20 metres (66 ft) by 4 by 4 metres (13 by 13 ft) was found below a ridge on Mount Canicula that faces northwest.[5]
(Mount Canicula stands on the divide separating Russell East Glacier and Russell West Glacier.[6])
The velocity of the glacier measured at its maximum ice thickness increased by 73% between 1993 and 2014.[7]
63°43′S58°36′W / 63.717°S 58.600°W / -63.717; -58.600.
Conspicuous ice-covered knoll, 1,010 metres (3,310 ft) high, marking the northeast end of Detroit Plateau in the central part of Trinity Peninsula.
Charted in 1946 by the FIDS and named after Sirius, the dog star.[11]
Zlidol Gate
63°44′10″S58°37′40″W / 63.73611°S 58.62778°W / -63.73611; -58.62778.
A saddle of elevation over 800 metres (2,600 ft) high on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula separating the Detroit Plateau to the west from Trakiya Heights to the east.
The feature is horseshoe-shaped, jutting out to Russell West Glacier to the north, with its southern approach from Victory Glacier narrowing to 500 metres (1,600 ft).
Named after the settlement of Zlidol in Northwestern Bulgaria.[12]
Chelopech Hill
63°43′28″S58°42′03″W / 63.72444°S 58.70083°W / -63.72444; -58.70083
An ice-covered hill rising to 938 metres (3,077 ft).[13]
Situated in the north foothills of Detroit Plateau, 1.63 kilometres (1.01 mi) north-northwest of Mount Schuyler, 4.07 kilometres (2.53 mi) east of Zlatolist Hill, and 1.9 kilometres (1.2 mi) west-southwest of Sirius Knoll.
Surmounting Russell West Glacier to the north.
Named after the settlement of Chelopech in Western Bulgaria.[14]
Zlatolist Hill
63°43′32″S58°47′00″W / 63.72556°S 58.78333°W / -63.72556; -58.78333
An ice-covered hill rising to 924 metres (3,031 ft).[15]
Situated in the north foothills of Detroit Plateau, 5.03 kilometres (3.13 mi) west-northwest of Mount Schuyler, 7.09 kilometres (4.41 mi) northeast of Aureole Hills, 7.2 kilometres (4.5 mi) east of Tinsel Dome.
Surmounting Russell West Glacier to the north.
Named after the settlement of Zlatolist in Southwestern Bulgaria.[16]
The Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica (REMA) gives ice surface measurements of most of the continent. When a feature is ice-covered, the ice surface will differ from the underlying rock surface and will change over time. To see ice surface contours and elevation of a feature as of the last REMA update,
Koerner, R.M. (1961), "Glaciological Observations in Trinity Peninsula, Graham Land, Antarctica", Journal of Glaciology, 3 (30), International Glaciological Society: 1063–1074, doi:10.3189/S0022143000017470
Seehaus, Thorsten (2018), "Changes in glacier dynamics in the northern Antarctic Peninsula since 1985", The Cryosphere, 12: 577–594, doi:10.5194/tc-12-577-2018-supplement
Trinity Peninsula(PDF) (Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697), Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996, archived from the original(PDF) on 23 September 2015