Hektoria Glacier
| Hektoria Glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| length | 24 km | |
| width | Max. 6.5 km | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 51 ′ S , 61 ° 45 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Larsen Ice Shelf | |
The Hektoria Glacier is a glacier on the Oscar II coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows from the area around Mount Johnston in a southerly direction to the Larsen Ice Shelf , which it reaches immediately west of Shiver Point .
The Australian polar explorer Hubert Wilkins discovered it during his Antarctic flight on December 20, 1928. He mistakenly thought it was a fjord . Measurements by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1947 could not identify the object described by Wilkins as a "long icy fjord". It was not until 1955 that the survey revealed that this must be this glacier and two other unnamed glaciers. The glacier is named after the whaling ship Hektoria , mother ship of the British whaling fleet.
Web links
- Hektoria Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hektoria Glacier on geographic.org (English)