Breitfuss Glacier is a 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...

 10 miles (16.1 km) long, which flows southeast from Avery Plateau

Avery Plateau

Avery Plateau is an ice-covered plateau, about long and rising to about , midway between Loubet Coast and Foyn Coast in Graham Land. The first sighting of this plateau is not ascertained, but it was presumably seen in January and February of 1909 by members of the French Antarctic Expedition...

 into Mill Inlet

Mill Inlet

Mill Inlet is an ice-filled inlet which recedes 8 miles in a northwest direction and is some 20 miles wide at its entrance between Cape Robinson and Monnier Point, along the east coast of Graham Land. It was charted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1947 and named for Hugh Robert Mill...

 to the west of Cape Chavanne

Cape Chavanne

Cape Chavanne is a prominent, partly ice-free bluff, with a conspicuous elongated dome forming the southern tip, standing east of the mouth of Breitfuss Glacier at the head of Mill Inlet, on the east coast of Graham Land...

, on the east 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...

. It was charted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) and photographed from the air by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition

Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition

The Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition was an expedition from 1947-1948 which researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica.-Background:...

 in 1947. Named by the FIDS for Leonid Breitfuss, German polar explorer, historian, and author of many polar bibliographies.