Russell West Glacier (63°40′S 58°50′W / 63.667°S 58.833°W / -63.667; -58.833 (Russell West Glacier)) is a glacier, 11 nautical miles (20 km; 13 mi) long and 4 nautical miles (7.4 km; 4.6 mi) wide, which lies immediately north of Detroit Plateau and flows from Mount Canicula westward into Bone Bay, on the north side of Trinity Peninsula.
It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Victor Ian Russell, surveyor and leader of the FIDS base at Hope Bay in 1946.
[6]) The velocity of the glacier measured at its maximum ice thickness increased by 73% between 1993 and 2014.
A flat ice-covered saddle of elevation over 801 metres (2,628 ft),[8] part of the ice divide between Bransfield Strait and Prince Gustav Channel.
Extending 5.3 kilometres (3.3 mi) between Louis Philippe Plateau to the north and Mount Canicula and Trakiya Heights to the south.
A steep-sided snow dome rising from a flat snowfield 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) northwest of the head of Russell West Glacier.
Named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Keith Allen, FIDS radio operator at Hope Bay in 1959 and 1960.
Conspicuous ice-covered knoll, 1,010 metres (3,310 ft) high, marking the northeast end of Detroit Plateau in the central part of Trinity Peninsula.
Charted in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) who gave this descriptive name.