Gordon Glacier is an Antarctic

Antarctic

The Antarctic is the region around the Earth's South Pole, opposite the Arctic region around the North Pole. The Antarctic comprises the continent of Antarctica and the ice shelves, waters and island territories in the Southern Ocean situated south of the Antarctic Convergence...

 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...

 of at least 24 miles (38.6 km) in length flowing in a northerly direction beginning in the Crossover Pass, flowing through the Shackleton Range

Shackleton Range

The Shackleton Range is a mountain range in Antarctica. Rising to , it extends in an east-west direction for about between the Slessor and Recovery glaciers....

 to finally meet the Slessor Glacier

Slessor Glacier

The Slessor Glacier is a glacier at least 120 km long and 80 km wide, flowing west into the Filchner Ice Shelf to the north of the Shackleton Range. First seen from the air and mapped by the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1956...

. The glacier was first mapped in 1957 by the CTAE

Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition

The 1955–58 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition was a Commonwealth-sponsored expedition that successfully completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica, via the South Pole...

, and named after George Patrick Pirie-Gordon, 15th Laird of Buthlaw (died 4th April 2011), who was a member of the Committee of Management and treasurer of the CTAE between 1955 and 1958.