Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Lurabee Glacier

(Wilkins Coast)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 69° 21' 58" S 64° W
flowing NE into Larsen Ice Shelf between Cape Walcott and Cape Hinks, Wilkins Coast, was photographed from the air, 20 December 1928, by Wilkins who considered it a channel cutting E-W through Graham Land between Scripps Heights and Finley Heights in c. 70°20'S; called Lurabee Channel after Ms Lurabee Shreck of San Francisco, in recognition of her assistance in procuring equipment for Wilkins' polar expeditions and in editing his book 'Flying the Arctic' (1928). The feature was further photographed from the air by Ellsworth, 21 November 1935, subsequently identified as a glacier, and named Lurabee Glacier. The glacier was roughly surveyed from the ground by the United States Antarctic Service in 1940. The glacier was further surveyed from the ground by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey-the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition from 'Stonington Island' in November 1947. The glacier was resurveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from 'Stonington Island', 1960-61.