Hinton Glacier
| Hinton Glacier | ||
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| location | Australian Antarctic Territory , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Britannia Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 80 ° 3 ′ S , 157 ° 10 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Hatherton Glacier | |
The Hinton Glacier is a glacier in the Australian Antarctic Territory . In the Britannia Range of the Transantarctic Mountains it flows between the ridges Forbes Ridge and Dusky Ridge to the Hatherton Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1965 after the construction mechanic Clarence Cornelius Hinton Jr. (* 1943) of the United States Navy , who was part of the 1963 occupation of McMurdo Station and who heads the team for the maintenance of remote United States research stations in the Antarctic would have.
Web links
- Hinton Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hinton Glacier on geographic.org (English)