title: Thomson Glacier
text: # Thomson Glacier
  
  Thomson Glacier (73°27′S 80°13′W﻿ / ﻿73.450°S 80.217°W﻿ / -73.450; -80.217) is a glacier about 8 nautical miles (15 km) long on Bryan Coast flowing between Rydberg and Wirth Peninsulas into Fladerer Bay. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Janet W. Thomson, British Antarctic Survey, head of the mapping operations from the 1980s to 2002, and member of the USA-UK cooperative project to compile Glaciological and Coastal-Change Maps of the Antarctic Peninsula.
  
  