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Eliason Glacier
Eliason
Glacier
is a
glacier
long close
west
of
Mount Hornsby
,
flowing
south from
Detroit Plateau
into the
ice piedmont
north
of
Larsen Inlet
,
Nordenskjöld Coast
in northern
Graham Land
,
Antarctica
. It was mapped from
surveys
by the
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey
, and was named by the
UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
after the
Eliason motor sledge
,
invented
in
1942 in Sweden
, now made in
Canada
, and used in
Arctic Canada
since 1950 and in
the Antarctic
since
1960
.