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{{short description|Glacier in Antarctica}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox glacier 
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| name          = Minnesota Glacier
| other_name    =  
| photo         = Ellsworth-Mountains-location-map.png
| photo_alt     = 
| photo_caption =  Location of [[Ellsworth Mountains]] in Western Antarctica
| map           =  Antarctica
| map_width     = 
| map_alt       = 
| map_caption   = Location of Minnesota Glacier in [[Antarctica]]
| mark = Blue_pog.svg
| type          = 
| location      = [[Ellsworth Land]]
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| area          = 
| length        = {{convert|40|nmi|}}
| width         = {{convert|5|nmi|}}
| thickness     = unknown
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| terminus      = [[Rutford Ice Stream]]
| status        = unknown
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}}

[[File:Union-Glacier.jpg|thumb|280px|Map of [[Heritage Range]] and Minnesota Glacier.]]
[[File:Vinson-Map.jpg|thumb|280px|Map of [[Sentinel Range]] with upper Minnesota Glacier and its northern tributaries.]]

'''Minnesota Glacier''' ({{coord|79|0|S|83|0|W|type:glacier_region:AQ_source:GNIS|display=inline, title}}) is a broad [[glacier]], about {{convert|40|nmi|}} long and {{convert|5|nmi|}} wide, flowing east through the [[Ellsworth Mountains]] in [[Antarctica]], separating the [[Sentinel Range]] and the [[Heritage Range]]. It is nourished by ice from the plateau west of the mountains and by [[Nimitz Glacier]] and [[Splettstoesser Glacier]], and merges into the larger [[Rutford Ice Stream]] at the eastern margin of the Ellsworth Mountains.

The glacier was named by the [[Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names]] for the [[University of Minnesota, Twin Cities]], which sent research parties to the Ellsworth Mountains in 1961–62, 1962–63 and 1963–64.<ref name=gnis/>

==Tributary glaciers==
* [[Splettstoesser Glacier]]
* [[Gowan Glacier]]
* [[Webster Glacier]]
* [[Nimitz Glacier]]
* [[Wessbecher Glacier]]
* [[Hudman Glacier]]
* [[Carey Glacier]]

==See also==
* [[List of glaciers in the Antarctic]]
* [[Glaciology]]

==References==
{{Reflist|refs=
<ref name=gnis>{{cite gnis | type = antarid | id = 10041| name = Minnesota Glacier | access-date = 2013-10-23}}</ref>
}}
*{{usgs-gazetteer|id=10041}}

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{{Glaciers}}
{{Glaciers in the Antarctic}}
{{Glaciers of Ellsworth Land}}

[[Category:Glaciers of Ellsworth Land]]
[[Category:Ellsworth Mountains]]


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