Ellen Glacier
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Sentinel Range
The Sentinel Range is a major mountain range situated northward of Minnesota Glacier and forming the northern half of the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. The range trends NNW-SSE for about and is 24 to 48 km wide...
, Ellsworth Mountains
Ellsworth Mountains
The Ellsworth Mountains are the highest mountain ranges in Antarctica, forming a long and wide chain of mountains in a north to south configuration on the western margin of the Ronne Ice Shelf. They are bisected by Minnesota Glacier to form the northern Sentinel Range and the southern Heritage...
, draining the eastern slopes of Mount Anderson
Mount Anderson (Antarctica)
Mount Anderson is a high mountain in the northern part of the Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. Probuda Ridge is trending northeast of the peak, and Ellen Glacier and Embree Glacier drain its eastern and northeastern slopes respectively...
and Long Gables and flowing generally SE for 35 km (22 mi) to Barnes Ridge, where it leaves the range and enters the south flowing Rutford Ice Stream.
First mapped by United States Geological Survey
United States Geological Survey
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from surveys and USN
United States Navy
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air photos, 1957-59. Named by US-ACAN
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...
for Lt. Col. Cicero J. Ellen, USAF, who was in command of many of the air operations when the South Pole Station was established by air drop in the 1956-57 season.