Dinsmoor 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...

 flowing east from the south edge of 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...

, joining Edgeworth Glacier

Edgeworth Glacier

Edgeworth Glacier is a glacier 12 nautical miles long, flowing southwest from the edge of Detroit Plateau below Wolseley Buttress to the ice shelf west of Sobral Peninsula, Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land. Mapped from surveys by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . Named by United Kingdom...

 to the northeast of Mount Elliott

Mount Elliot (Antarctica)

Mount Elliott is a conspicuous mountain, with a few small rock exposures and ice-free cliffs on the southeast side, standing 18 miles northwest of Cape Sobral and 8 miles northeast of Rice Bastion, on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. It was charted in 1947 by the Falkland Islands...

. Mapped from surveys by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) (1960-61). Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Charles Dinsmoor

Charles Dinsmoor

Charles Dinsmoor was an American inventor and lawyer.-Early life:Dinsmoor's ancestors came from Ireland, however are from Scottish descent. Dinsmoor was born at Alabama Center, Genesee County, in New York state on September 19, 1834...

 of Warren, PA, who invented the endless tracking "vehicle" in 1886, a forerunner of the modern continuous track and tracked vehicle

Tracked vehicle

A tracked vehicle is a vehicle that runs on continuous tracks instead of wheels...

s. It was first manufactured commercially by Holt Manufacturing Company

Holt Manufacturing Company

The Holt Manufacturing Company traces its roots to the 1883 establishment of Stockton Wheel Service in Stockton, California, United States. Benjamin Holt, who was later credited with patenting the first workable crawler tractor design, incorporated the Holt Manufacturing Company in 1892...

 of Stockton, California

Stockton, California

Stockton, California, the seat of San Joaquin County, is the fourth-largest city in the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California. With a population of 291,707 at the 2010 census, Stockton ranks as this state's 13th largest city...

in 1906.