Hess glacier
| Hess glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| length | 8 kilometers | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 13 ′ 0 ″ S , 65 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Hess inlet | |
The Hess Glacier is an 8 km long glacier on the Foyn coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows between steep rock faces in an east-northeast direction and flows 16 km southwest of Monnier Point into the Hess Inlet .
The mapping was carried out in 1947 by scientists from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . They named it after the German glaciologist Hans Hess (1864–1940).
Web links
- Hess Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hess Glacier on geographic.org (English)