Turner Glacier


Turner Glacier is a glacier on the east side of Mount Liotard flowing northeast into Ryder Bay, Adelaide Island. The glacier was surveyed by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, 1948, and photographed from the air by Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition, 1956–57. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1977 after Andrew John Turner, British Antarctic Survey builder, Halley Station, 1973–74; Signy Island, 1974–75; Rothera Station, 1976–77, 1978–80; and Faraday Station, 1982–83.