Hewitt glacier
| Hewitt glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 24 km | |
| Coordinates | 83 ° 17 ′ S , 167 ° 50 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Lennox King Glacier | |
The Hewitt Glacier is a 15 miles long glacier on the Shackleton Coast of the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It flows from the eastern slopes of the Holland Range between Lewis Ridge and Mount Tripp into the Richards Inlet of the Lennox King Glacier .
It was named by participants in a campaign carried out from 1959 to 1960 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition after Leonard Rodney Hewitt (≈1913–1964), head of Scott Base in 1959.
Web links
- Hewitt Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hewitt Glacier on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Leonard Rodney Hewitt biography on aucklandmuseum.com