Summary
Huntress Glacier is a glacier 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) long and 3.7 kilometres (2.3 mi) wide flowing into the head of False Bay, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is situated east of Johnsons Glacier, southeast of Contell Glacier and Balkan Snowfield, south of upper Perunika Glacier, southwest of Huron Glacier and northwest of Macy Glacier, and is bounded by Friesland Ridge and the Tangra Mountains to the southeast, Nesebar Gap, Pliska Ridge, Burdick Ridge and Willan Nunatak to the north, and Charrúa Gap and Napier Peak to the northwest.
| Huntress Glacier | |
|---|---|
 Location of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands | |
  Location of Huntress Glacier in Antarctica  Huntress Glacier (Antarctica) | |
| Location | Livingston Island South Shetland Islands |
| Coordinates | 62°40′00″S 60°15′45″W / 62.66667°S 60.26250°W |
| Length | 4.3 nautical miles (8.0 km; 4.9 mi) |
| Width | 2.3 nautical miles (4.3 km; 2.6 mi) |
| Thickness | unknown |
| Terminus | False Bay |
| Status | unknown |
The glacier was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1958 after the American schooner Huntress (Captain Christopher Burdick) from Nantucket, which visited the South Shetland Islands in 1820–21 in company with the Huron of New Haven, Connecticut.[1]
Location edit
The glacier's midpoint is located at 62°40′00″S 60°15′45″W / 62.66667°S 60.26250°W (British mapping in 1968, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).
See also edit
Maps edit
- L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
- L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4
- L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017. ISBN 978-619-90008-3-0
- A. Kamburov and L. Ivanov. Bowles Ridge and Central Tangra Mountains: Livingston Island, Antarctica. Scale 1:25000 map. Sofia: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2023. ISBN 978-619-90008-6-1
References edit
- ^ "Huntress Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2012-07-04.
This article incorporates public domain material from "Huntress Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
External links edit
- SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
