Palais Glacier
Palais Glacier is a broad glacier, about 8 nautical miles long, flowing north between Wilkniss Mountains and Colwell Massif to enter Ferrar Glacier, in Victoria Land. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1994 after Julie Michelle Palais, glaciologist, who conducted field research in Antarctica during five seasons at Dome Charlie and Mount Erebus, 1978–89; from 1991, Program Director for Polar Glaciology, Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation ; from 1994, member of the U.S. Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names.
