Wiggins Glacier is a 10 nautical miles (18 km) long 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...

 on Kiev Peninsula

Kiev Peninsula

Kiev Peninsula is the predominantly ice-covered, oval shaped peninsula projecting 35 km in northwest direction from the west side of Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula. Bounded by Flandres Bay to the northeast and Beascochea Bay to the southwest. Separated from Wilhelm Archipelago to the northwest...

 in Antarctica, flowing from Bruce Plateau

Bruce Plateau

Bruce Plateau is an ice-covered plateau, at least long and about high, extending northeast from the heads of Gould Glacier and Erskine Glacier to the vicinity of Flandres Bay, in Graham Land...

 to the west coast of Graham Land

Graham Land

Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...

 just south of Blanchard Ridge

Blanchard Ridge

Blanchard Ridge is a rocky ridge, high, at the north side of the mouth of Wiggins Glacier on Kiev Peninsula on the west coast of Graham Land. It was mapped by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1908–10, and named by Jean-Baptiste Charcot for a Monsieur Blanchard, then French Consul at Punta...

. Charted by the French Antarctic Expedition

French Antarctic Expedition

French Antarctic Expedition refers to several French expeditions in Antarctica.-First expedition:Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec was a French explorer....

, 1908–10, under Charcot, and named Glacier du Milieu ("Middle Glacier"). Feeling that a more distinctive name was needed, the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1959 renamed the glacier for W.D.C. Wiggins, then Deputy Director of Overseas Surveys

Ordnance Survey International

From 1946 to 1999, Ordnance Survey International and its predecessors built the Ordnance Survey International Collection , an archive of air photography, map and survey records derived from its mapping activities outside the UK.The agency was closed in 2001...

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