Aitkenhead Glacier is a 10 miles (16 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...

 flowing east-southeast from the Detroit Plateau

Detroit Plateau

Detroit Plateau is a major interior plateau of Graham Land, with heights between 1,500 and 1,800 m. Its northeast limit is marked by the south wall of Russell West Glacier, from which it extends some in a general southwest direction to Herbert Plateau. The plateau was observed from the air by...

, 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...

, (south of Mancho Buttress

Mancho Buttress

Mancho Buttress is the ice-covered buttress rising to 1250 m on the northeast side of Detroit Plateau on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica...

 and Baley Nunatak

Baley Nunatak

Baley Nunatak is the rocky hill rising to 495 m in the southeast foothills of Mancho Buttress on the north side of Aitkenhead Glacier, on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica....

 and north of Simpson Nunatak

Simpson Nunatak

Simpson Nunatak is a nunatak, 1,165 m, rising 2.5 nautical miles northwest of Mount Roberts, on the south margin of Aitkenhead Glacier, Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Hugh W. Simpson of Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey , a member of...

 and Hitar Petar Nunatak

Hitar Petar Nunatak

Hitar Petar Nunatak is the rocky hill rising to 462 m on the coast of Prince Gustav Channel, facing Alectoria Island and next south of the terminus of Aitkenhead Glacier on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica....

) into Prince Gustav Channel

Prince Gustav Channel

The Prince Gustav Channel was named in 1903 after Crown Prince Gustav of Sweden by Otto Nordenskiöld of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition.The channel is bounded on the west by the Antarctic Peninsula and on the east by James Ross Island...

 (close north of Alectoria Island

Alectoria Island

Alectoria Island is a low, nearly ice-free island less than long. It lies in Prince Gustav Channel, about off the terminus of Aitkenhead Glacier, Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica. Surveyed in 1945 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, who named it after the lichen Alectoria which was...

). It was mapped from surveys by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) (1960–61), and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Neil Aitkenhead, a FIDS geologist at Hope Bay

Hope Bay

Hope Bay on Trinity Peninsula, is long and wide, indenting the tip of Antarctic Peninsula and opening on Antarctic Sound....

(1959–60).

Map

• Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.