Hedley Glacier
| Hedley Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Kukri Hills , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 49 ′ S , 162 ° 7 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Ferrar glacier | |
The Hedley Glacier is a small glacier in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Kukri Hills, it flows south from Mount Coates to the Ferrar Glacier .
The western group of the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) under the direction of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott named him. It is named after the Australian malacologist Charles Hedley (1862-1926) from the Australian Museum , who wrote treatises on the molluscs collected on this research trip and previously on the Nimrod Expedition (1907-1909) of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton .
Web links
- Hedley Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hedley Glacier on geographic.org (English)