Name StatusOfficial ValidatedFeatureGlacierNZ Gazette Reference2012 (53) p.1477DatumRSRGD2000GeoTag[1] PositionDescriptionA major glacier, about 12 miles wide at its mouth and perhaps 80 to 100 miles long, descending from the polar plateau, approximately along the 175th meridian west longitude, to the head of the Ross Ice Shelf. Discovered by the US Antarctic Service Expedition, 1939-41, on the flight of 29 February to 1 March 1940. Named by the US Special Committee on Antarctic Names, 1943-47, for Sir Ernest Shackleton, famous British Antarctic explorer. Not Wade Glacier.
