Dibble Glacier

Dibble Glacier in Antarctica is a prominent channel glacier flowing from the continental ice and terminating in a prominent tongue at the east side of Davis Bay. Primarily directed to the east of the Dibble Basin, the ice flow is fast, showing recent loss of ~2.4 Gt/year. The glacier connects to the Dibble Iceberg Tongue extending across the entire continental shelf, and holds ~12cm of sea-level equivalent.

Dibble glacier was delineated from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump (1946–47) and covers an area of ~36,500 km². It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Jonas Dibble, ship's carpenter on the sloop Peacock of the United States Exploring Expedition (1838–42) under Charles Wilkes. Dibble is credited with leaving his sick bed and working 24 hours without relief with other carpenters to repair a broken rudder on the Peacock, when the ship was partially crushed in an ice bay in 151°19′E and forced to retire northward.