Utstikkar Glacier
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Utstikkar Glacier is a broad 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 north from the vicinity of Moyes Peak
Moyes Peak
Moyes Peak is a small rock peak projecting slightly above the ice sheet 2 nautical miles north of Pearce Peak, 12 nautical miles southwest of Falla Bluff. Discovered in February 1931 by the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition under Mawson, and named by him for Commander...

 in Antarctica and terminating in Utstikkar Glacier Tongue between Utstikkar Bay
Utstikkar Bay
Utstikkar Bay is a bay 4 miles wide, indenting the coast immediately east of Utstikkar Glacier. It was first mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936-37, and was so named by them because the bay is contiguous with Utstikkar Glacier....

 to the east and Allison Bay
Allison Bay
Allison Bay , also known as Isvika, is a small bay immediately west of the Utstikkar Glacier, and about east of the Lachal Bluffs and Ufs Island, on the Mawson Coast of Mac. Robertson Land in Antarctica...

 to the west.

The glacier was mapped and named Utstikkarbreen (the out-jutting glacier) by Norwegian cartographers working from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition in January-February 1937.
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