Herbertson Glacier
| Herbertson Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 42 ′ S , 163 ° 48 ′ E | |
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| drainage | New Harbor | |
The Herbertson Glacier is a small glacial at the Scott-coast of the east Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows from a cliff on the southern edge of New Harbor at a distance of 5 miles west-southwest to Butter Point .
It was named during the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott . It is named after the British geographer Andrew John Herbertson (1865–1915) from the University of Oxford .
Web links
- Herbertson Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Herbertson Glacier on geographic.org (English)