Hood glacier
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 Location of the Hood Glacier (bottom center left) east of the Beardmore Glacier ( satellite image ) |
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 40 km | |
| Coordinates | 83 ° 55 ′ S , 173 ° 10 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Ross Ice Shelf | |
The Hood Glacier is a 40-km long glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It flows from Siege Dome in the Commonwealth Range northwards between this mountain range and the Separation Range to the Dufek coast , where it flows into the Ross Ice Shelf .
The glacier was of subscribers of Nimrod expedition (1907-1909) under the direction of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton discovered and after the British Konteradmiral Horace Hood named (1870-1916), under the deputy expedition leader Jameson Adams on the ship HMS Berwick served would have.
See also
Web links
- Hood Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hood Glacier on geographic.org (English)
- Hood Glacier. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 161 (English)