Beardmore Glacier
The
Beardmore Glacier in
Antarctica is the largest
glacier in the world. It was discovered by
Ernest Shackleton during his
Nimrod Antarctic expedition of
1908, and named after the expedition's sponsor. The glacier is one of the main passages from the
Ross Ice Shelf through the Trans-Antarctic Mountains to the Antarctic Plateau, and thus made the early conquest of the
South Pole possible.
