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Lancing Glacier
Location of Lancing Glacier in South Georgia
Location South Georgia
Coordinates 54°20′S 36°56′W / 54.333°S 36.933°W / -54.333; -36.933
Length 3 nmi (6 km; 3 mi)
Thickness unknown
Terminus Newark Bay
Status unknown

Lancing Glacier (54°20′S 36°56′W / 54.333°S 36.933°W / -54.333; -36.933Coordinates: 54°20′S 36°56′W / 54.333°S 36.933°W / -54.333; -36.933) is a glacier 3 nautical miles (6 km) long, flowing south from Mount Corneliussen and Smillie Peak to Newark Bay on the south side of South Georgia. It was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey in the period 1951–57, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for the Lancing (formerly Flackwell), built in 1898, and converted to a whale factory ship in 1923. It was the first factory ship to be fitted with a slipway.

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