Djerassi Glacier is a 6 km long and 7 km wide glacier situated southwest of Paré Glacier

Pare Glacier

Pare Glacier is a glacier 7 nautical miles long and 1 nautical mile wide, flowing east and then northeast into the head of Bouquet Bay on the northeast side of Brabant Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. Shown on an Argentine government chart in 1953, but not named. Photographed by Hunting...

, northwest of Malpighi Glacier

Malpighi Glacier

Malpighi Glacier is a glacier 5 nautical miles long and 1 nautical mile wide, flowing southeast from Harvey Heights to join Mackenzie Glacier at the east coast of Brabant Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. First roughly charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99, under Gerlache....

 and north of Pirogov Glacier

Pirogov Glacier

Pirogov Glacier is a 5 km long and 1.5 km wide glacier situated south of Djerassi Glacier and west of Mackenzie Glacier on Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica...

 on Brabant Island

Brabant Island

Brabant Island is the second largest island of the Palmer Archipelago within the British Antarctic Territory, lying between Anvers Island and Liège Island. Brabant Island is located at . Brabant Island is long in a north-south direction, wide, and rises to in Mount Parry...

 in the Palmer Archipelago

Palmer Archipelago

Palmer Archipelago, also known as Antarctic Archipelago, Archipiélago Palmer, Antarktiske Arkipel or Palmer Inseln, is a group of islands off the northwestern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula....

, Antarctica. Draining the area north of Mount Parry

Mount Parry

Mount Parry is a mountain which rises eastward of Minot Point and dominates the central portion of Brabant Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. The feature appears to have been named by Captain Henry Foster, Royal Navy, of the Chanticleer expedition in 1829 and since has gained international usage....

, northwest of Harvey Heights

Harvey Heights (Antarctica)

Harvey Heights is a series of elevations close north of Mount Parry and west of the head of Malpighi Glacier in central Brabant Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. Shown on an Argentine government chart in 1953, but not named. Photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1956-57, and mapped from...

 and south of Mount Rokitansky, and flowing westwards into Lanusse Bay

Lanusse Bay

Lanusse Bay is a bay between Driencourt Point and Minot Point on the west side of Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago. Named "Bahia Lanusse" by the Argentine Antarctic Expedition in 1979, presumably after Teniente de Navio Alejandro Lanusse, Argentine Navy, the first Argentine aircraft pilot...

.

The glacier is named for the Bulgarian-American

Bulgarian Americans

Bulgarian Americans are citizens of the United States with Bulgarian heritage. For the 2000 US Census, 55,489 Americans indicated Bulgarian as their first ancestry, while 92,841 persons declared to have Bulgarian ancestry...

 scientist Carl Djerassi

Carl Djerassi

Carl Djerassi is an Austrian-American chemist, novelist, and playwright best known for his contribution to the development of the first oral contraceptive pill . Djerassi is emeritus professor of chemistry at Stanford University.He participated in the invention in 1951, together with Mexican Luis E...

 (b. 1923), a co-inventor of the oral contraceptive pill.

Location

Djerassi Glacier is located at 64°13′10"S 62°27′00"W. British mapping in 1980.

Map

• British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map No. 3217. DOS 610 - W 64 62. Tolworth, UK, 1980.
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993-2006.