Gibbs 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...

, 15 nautical miles (28 km) long, flowing southeast into the north part of Mercator Ice Piedmont

Mercator Ice Piedmont

Mercator Ice Piedmont is a gently-sloping ice piedmont at the head of Mobiloil Inlet, formed by the confluence of the Gibbs, Lammers, Cole and Weyerhaeuser Glaciers in eastern Graham Land. The feature was first photographed from the air by Lincoln Ellsworth in November 1935, and was plotted from...

 on the east side of Antarctic Peninsula

Antarctic Peninsula

The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of the mainland of Antarctica. It extends from a line between Cape Adams and a point on the mainland south of Eklund Islands....

. This feature together with Neny Glacier

Neny Glacier

Neny Glacier is a glacier flowing northwest into the north part of Neny Fjord on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula. This feature together with Gibbs Glacier, which flows southeast, occupy a transverse depression between Neny Fjord and Mercator Ice Piedmont on the east side of Antarctic Peninsula...

, which flows northwest, occupy a transverse depression between Mercator Ice Piedmont and Neny Fjord

Neny Fjord

Neny Fjord is a fjord which is 10 miles long in an east-west direction and 5 miles wide, between Red Rock Ridge and Roman Four Promontory on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica.-History:...

 on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula. Gibbs Glacier was photographed from the air and first mapped by the United States Antarctic Service (USAS), 1939–41, and 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:...

 (RARE), 1947-48. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Peter M. Gibbs of Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), surveyor at Horseshoe Island

Horseshoe Island (Antarctica)

Horseshoe Island is an island 6.5 nautical miles long and 3 nautical miles wide occupying most of the entrance to Square Bay, along the west coast of Graham Land. Discovered and named by the British Graham Land Expedition under Rymill who mapped this area by land and from the air in 1936-37...

, 1957, and leader at Stonington Island

Stonington Island

Stonington Island is a rocky island lying 1 mile northeast of Neny Island in the eastern part of Marguerite Bay, off the west coast of Graham Land. Stonington Island is located at . Stonington Island, 0.4 miles long from northwest to southeast and 0.2 miles wide formerly connected by a drifted snow...

, 1958, who was responsible (with P. Forster) for the first ground survey of the glacier.