Dibble Glacier is a prominent channel 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...

 flowing from the continental ice and terminating in a prominent tongue at the east side of Davis Bay

Davis Bay

Davis Bay is a bay about wide at the entrance between Cape Cesney and Lewis Island. It was discovered from the Aurora by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition under Douglas Mawson, and named by Mawson for Capt. John King Davis, master of the Aurora and second-in-command of the expedition....

. Delineated from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump (1946-47), and named 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...

 (US-ACAN) for Jonas Dibble, ship's carpenter on the sloop Peacock of the United States Exploring Expedition

United States Exploring Expedition

The United States Exploring Expedition was an exploring and surveying expedition of the Pacific Ocean and surrounding lands conducted by the United States from 1838 to 1842. The original appointed commanding officer was Commodore Thomas ap Catesby Jones. The voyage was authorized by Congress in...

 (1838-42) under Wilkes. Dibble is credited with leaving his sick bed and working 24 hours without relief with other carpenters to repair a broken rudder on the Peacock, when the ship was partially crushed in an ice bay

Bay

A bay is an area of water mostly surrounded by land. Bays generally have calmer waters than the surrounding sea, due to the surrounding land blocking some waves and often reducing winds. Bays also exist as an inlet in a lake or pond. A large bay may be called a gulf, a sea, a sound, or a bight...

in 15119E and forced to retire northward.