Kornicker 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 northeastwards from the cirque bounded by Mounts Liptak

Mount Liptak

Mount Liptak is a mountain over 3,000 m with twin summits, located 7 nautical miles southeast of Mount Craddock in the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. It surmounts Bolgrad Glacier to the west and Kornicker Glacier to the east....

, Southwick

Mount Southwick

Mount Southwick is a mountain near the south end of the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica, located 9 nautical miles south-southeast of Mount Craddock...

, Milton

Mount Milton

Mount Milton is a mountain located 11 nautical miles south-southeast of Mount Craddock and 1.5 nautical miles southeast of Mount Southwick, in the south part of the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica...

 and Mullen

Mount Mullen

Mount Mullen is a double-peaked mountain 2.5 mi east-southeast of Mount Milton in south Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. The mountain rises to 2400 m at the west extremity of Petvar Heights, and together with Kasilag Pass forms the divide between Kornicker Glacier and Wessbecher...

 in southern Sentinel Range

Sentinel Range

The Sentinel Range is a major mountain range situated northward of Minnesota Glacier and forming the northern half of the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. The range trends NNW-SSE for about and is 24 to 48 km wide...

, Ellsworth Mountains

Ellsworth Mountains

The Ellsworth Mountains are the highest mountain ranges in Antarctica, forming a long and wide chain of mountains in a north to south configuration on the western margin of the Ronne Ice Shelf. They are bisected by Minnesota Glacier to form the northern Sentinel Range and the southern Heritage...

 in Antarctica. The glacier merges with the terminus

Glacier terminus

A glacier terminus, or snout, is the end of a glacier at any given point in time. Although glaciers seem motionless to the observer, in reality glaciers are in endless motion and the glacier terminus is always either advancing or retreating...

 of southeast-flowing Thomas Glacier

Thomas Glacier

Thomas Glacier is a roughly Z-shaped glacier which drains the southeast slopes of Vinson Massif and flows for 17 nautical miles through the south part of the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains, leaving the range south of Johnson Spur. Discovered by U.S...

 as both glaciers emerge from the range. Named by US-ACAN (2006) after Louis S. Kornicker, research zoologist, Department of Invertebrate Zoology (Crustacea), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, licensing activities, and magazines...

, 1964-2006; Board of Associated Editors, Antarctic Research Series, American Geophysical Union

American Geophysical Union

The American Geophysical Union is a nonprofit organization of geophysicists, consisting of over 50,000 members from over 135 countries. AGU's activities are focused on the organization and dissemination of scientific information in the interdisciplinary and international field of geophysics...

, 1978-90.

Maps

• Vinson Massif. Scale 1:250 000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1988.