Lancing 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...

 3 nautical miles (6 km) long, flowing south from Mount Corneliussen

Mount Corneliussen

Mount Corneliussen is a mountain, 1,540 m, standing 1 nautical mile north of Mount Globus at the west end of the Allardyce Range of South Georgia...

 and Smillie Peak

Smillie Peak

Smillie Peak is a rock peak, 1,765 m, standing 1 mile east of Mount Corneliussen in the west extremity of the Allardyce Range of South Georgia. Surveyed by the SGS, 1951–52, and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Gordon Smillie, SGS surveyor....

 to Newark Bay

Newark Bay (South Georgia)

Newark Bay is a bay 3 miles long, entered at the southeast end of Fanning Ridge, along the south coast of South Georgia. The presence of this bay seems to have been first noted in 1819 by a Russian expedition under Bellingshausen, who roughly charted a small inlet in this approximate position. The...

 on the south side of South Georgia

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands is a British overseas territory and overseas territory of the European Union in the southern Atlantic Ocean. It is a remote and inhospitable collection of islands, consisting of South Georgia and a chain of smaller islands, known as the South Sandwich...

. Surveyed by the SGS in the period 1951-57, and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee

UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee

The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory and the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands...

 (UK-APC) for the Lancing (ex-Flackwell), built in 1898, and converted to a whale factory ship

Factory ship

A factory ship, also known as a fish processing vessel, is a large ocean-going vessel with extensive on-board facilities for processing and freezing caught fish...

 in 1923. It was the first factory ship to be fitted with a slipway

Slipway

A slipway, boat slip or just a slip, is a ramp on the shore by which ships or boats can be moved to and from the water. They are used for building and repairing ships and boats. They are also used for launching and retrieving small boats on trailers and flying boats on their undercarriage. The...

. The Islands in 1925-26.