Hobbs Glacier (East Antarctica)
| Hobbs glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Denton Hills , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 11 km | |
| width | ⌀ 2.5 km; Max. 3 km | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 54 ′ S , 164 ° 24 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Hobbs Stream → Salmon Bay → McMurdo Sound | |
The Hobbs Glacier is a 11 km long and up to 3 km wide glacier on the Scott coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows about 3 km south of the Blue Glacier from the Denton Hills in an easterly direction and ends above Salmon Bay .
He was discovered during the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) under the direction of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott . Participants in the Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913) also led by Scott explored the area in more detail and named the glacier after the American glaciologist William Herbert Hobbs (1864–1953).
Web links
- Hobbs Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hobbs Glacier on geographic.org (English)