List of glaciers of Kaiser Wilhelm II Land

Mapped from aerial photographs taken by United States Navy (USN) Operation Highjump (OpHjp), 1946-47.

Named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for the USS Burton Island, one of the two icebreakers of USN Operation Windmill (OpWml), 1947-48, which assisted in establishing astronomical control stations along Wilhelm II, Queen Mary, Knox and Budd Coasts.

Named by the ANCA for Emil Philippi, geologist with the Gauss expedition under Erich von Drygalski, 1901-03, who made scientific observations in the vicinity of Gaussberg.

Glacier about 9 nautical miles (17 km; 10 mi) long, flowing north to Posadowsky Bay immediately east of Gaussberg.

It was named after Drygalski's Posadowsky Bay by US-ACAN in 1955 following studies of the aerial photographs taken by USN OpHjp, 1946-47.

Location of Kaiser Wilhelm II Land (red), Australian Antarctic Territory in Antarctica
USS ' Burton Island
Arthur von Posadowsky-Wehner , for whom several Antarctic features were named