Earnshaw Glacier is a 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...

 10 nautical miles (18 km) long, flowing northward to the east of Norwood Scarp

Norwood Scarp

Nost Island is an island less than 0.5 nautical miles long, lying 2 nautical miles west-southwest of Evans Island in the south part of Holme Bay. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936–37, and called by them Nostet ....

 and entering Maitland Glacier

Maitland Glacier

Maitland Glacier is a glacier flowing along the west flank of Hitchcock Heights into Mobiloil Inlet, on the east coast of Antarctic Peninsula. This glacier may appear indistinctly in an aerial photograph taken by Sir Hubert Wilkins on his flight of December 20, 1928, but it was more clearly shown...

 to the south of Werner Peak

Werner Peak

Werner Peak is the highest and most conspicuous peak on the southeast side of Mercator Ice Piedmont. The peak rises just east of the north end of Norwood Scarp. A steep rock ridge on its north side is easily recognizable from any point on the ice piedmont. Photographed from the air by the United...

, in eastern Antarctic Peninsula

Antarctic Peninsula

The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of the mainland of Antarctica. It extends from a line between Cape Adams and a point on the mainland south of Eklund Islands....

. Photographed from the air by the United States Antarctic Service (USAS) on September 28, 1940. Surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in January 1961. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Thomas Earnshaw

Thomas Earnshaw

Thomas Earnshaw was an English watchmaker who following John Arnold's earlier work, further simplified the process of marine chronometer production, making them available to the general public...

(1749–1829), English watchmaker who made innovations leading to the modern marine chronometer.