Cuthbertson Snowfield
| Cuthbertson Snowfield | ||
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| location | Laurie Island , South Orkney Islands | |
| Coordinates | 60 ° 42 ′ S , 44 ° 30 ′ W | |
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The Cuthbertson Snow Field is a 340 m high-altitude snowfield on Laurie Iceland in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . It is east of the Watson Peninsula .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1987 after the Scottish painter William Alexander Cuthbertson (1882 – unknown), participant in the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (1902–1904) under the direction of the polar explorer William Speirs Bruce , which wintered in 1903 on Laurie Island .
Web links
- Cuthbertson Snowfield in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cuthbertson Snowfield on geographic.org (English)