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Grotto Glacier
Grotto Glacier
is a
glacier
on the east coast of
Alexander Island
,
Antarctica
, which flows east into
George VI Sound
between
Belemnite Point
and
Ablation Point
. It is long, wide where it emerges from the coastal mountains, and wide at its mouth. It was first photographed from the air on 23 November 1935, by
Lincoln Ellsworth
and mapped from these photographs by W.L.G. Joerg. It was roughly surveyed in 1936 by the
British Graham Land Expedition
and resurveyed in 1949 by the
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey
(FIDS). The glacier was so named by the FIDS because a sledge dog was rescued from a
grotto
-like
crevasse
in the glacier.
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