Hero Glacier
| Hero Glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 5 km | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ S , 177 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Shackleton Glacier | |
The Held Glacier is a 5 km long glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains it flows east of the Anderson Heights to the Shackleton Glacier , which it reaches immediately south of the Epidote Peak .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1966 after Lieutenant George B. Held of the Civil Engineer Corps of the United States Navy , who was responsible for public relations at McMurdo Station in 1964 .
Web links
- Held Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Held Glacier on geographic.org (English)