Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Shambles Glacier

(Adelaide Island)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 67° 21' 45" S 68° 18' 55" W
flowing E into Stonehouse Bay, E Adelaide Island, was roughly mapped in its lower reaches by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1908-10, in January 1909; surveyed in its lower reaches by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from 'Stonington Island' in October 1948 and so named in reference to its crevassed surface; photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition, 1956-57, and further surveyed from the ground by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from Adelaide, 1961-62.