Hooker Glacier (Antarctica)
| Hooker Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 4 ′ S , 163 ° 6 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Blue Glacier | |
The Hooker Glacier is a glacier in East Antarctica, Victoria Land . On the east side of the Royal Society Range, it flows northeast from the slopes of Mount Hooker to the Blue Glacier .
Participants of a New Zealand team to explore the Blue Glacier as part of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) carried out a survey in 1957 and named it after Mount Hooker, which was named after the British botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911).
Web links
- Hooker Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hooker Glacier on geographic.org (English)