Trail Glacier


Trail Glacier is a broken mountain glacier on the southern side of Mount Menzies, about 2 nautical miles from the summit. It is about 5 nautical miles long and 3 nautical miles wide. The glacier flows from a snowfield at about 2,750 m down a steep slope for at least 900 m vertically, then spreads out and merges with the ice sheet a few mi from the south side of the mountain. Mapped from ANARE air photos and surveys of the Prince Charles Mountains, 1960–61. Named by Antarctic Names Committee of Australia for D.S. Trail, geologist who led an ANARE field party to this feature in December 1961.