
Dinsmoor Glacier
(Detroit Plateau)
British Antarctic Territory
Location: 64° 22' 58" S 60° 5' 18" W
flowing E from Detroit Plateau into Edgeworth Glacier, Nordenskjöld Coast, was photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition, 1956-57, and surveyed from the ground by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from 'Hope Bay', 1960-61; in association with the names of pioneers of overland mechanical transport grouped in this area, named after Charles Dinsmoor, American engineer, of Warren, Pa, and inventor in 1886 of the 'endless tracking machine', a forerunner of modern tracked vehicles, which was first made commercially by Holt Manufacturing Company of Stockton, California, in 1906.