Eros Glacier

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Eros Glacier is a glacier on the east coast of Alexander Island, Antarctica. It is about 7 nautical miles (13 km) long and 2 nautical miles (4 km) wide at its mouth, and it flows southeast from the Planet Heights into George VI Sound, just north of Fossil Bluff.

It was probably first seen on November 23, 1935, by Lincoln Ellsworth, who flew over it and photographed nearby features. The glacier’s mouth was mapped in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition and again in 1948–49 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey. Detailed mapping came from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–48), with work by D. Searle of the FIDS in 1960. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it after the minor planet 433 Eros, in association with nearby Pluto Glacier and Uranus Glacier.