Amos Glacier is a 3 miles (4.8 km) long glacier

Glacier

A glacier is a large persistent body of ice that forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. At least 0.1 km² in area and 50 m thick, but often much larger, a glacier slowly deforms and flows due to stresses induced by its weight...

 that flows southeast from Bettle Peak

Bettle Peak

Bettle Peak is a peak, high, standing west of Bowers Piedmont Glacier and north of Granite Knolls in Victoria Land. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for James F. Bettle, United States Antarctic Research Program meteorologist and scientific leader at McMurdo Station in...

 to a juncture with the Blue Glacier

Blue Glacier (Antarctica)

Blue Glacier is a large glacier which flows into Bowers Piedmont Glacier about south of New Harbour, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition under Robert Falcon Scott, 1901–04, who gave it this name because of its clear blue ice at the...

 (southeast of Hannon Hill

Hannon Hill

Hannon Hill is a bare rock hill on the west side of the terminus of Amos Glacier, at the juncture with Blue Glacier, in Victoria Land. Named in 1992 by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Timothy J...

), in Victoria Land

Victoria Land

Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and on the west by Oates Land and Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria...

, Antarctica. It was named in 1992 by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending names for features in Antarctica...

 after Larry Leon Amos, civil engineer, United States Geological Survey

United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey is a scientific agency of the United States government. The scientists of the USGS study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, and the natural hazards that threaten it. The organization has four major science disciplines, concerning biology,...

 (USGS), a member of the USGS two man astronomic surveying team to South Pole Station and Byrd Station

Byrd Station

Byrd Station refers to a research station established by the United States during the International Geophysical Year by the U.S. Navy during Operation Deep Freeze II in West Antarctica at 80°, 120°W...

 in the 1969–70 field season. Among other work, the team established the position of the Geographic South Pole (previously done 1956) and established a tie to the Byrd Ice Strain net which had been under study for several years.