Hariot glacier
| Hariot glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 0 ′ S , 66 ° 16 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Wordie Ice Shelf | |
The Hariot Glacier is a glacier on the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows in a north-westerly direction along the southern flank of the Morgan Upland before turning west to the central section of the Fallières coast. In this southeastern section of Marguerite Bay between Cape Berteaux and Mount Edgell on the Antarctic Peninsula , the Hariot - together with two other glaciers - formed the now-defunct Wordie Ice Shelf until the 1990s .
A rough mapping was carried out by the British Graham Land Expedition (1936-1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill . The upper section of the glacier was photographed from the air in 1947 during the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948). The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out on-site surveys in December 1958. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the glacier in 1962 after the English mathematician Thomas Hariot (1560–1621), who developed new methods of navigation under the patronage of Walter Raleigh .
Web links
- Hariot Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hariot Glacier on geographic.org (English)