Hooper Glacier
| Hooper Glacier | ||
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| location | Anvers Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| length | 5 km | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 44 ′ 31 ″ S , 63 ° 37 ′ 40 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Börgen Bay | |
The Hooper Glacier is a 5 km long glacier on Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows from a mountain saddle north of Mount William into the west side of Börgen Bay .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out surveys in 1955. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1957 after Peter Ralph Hooper (* 1931), FIDS chief geologist at the Arthur Harbor research station in 1955 and 1956.
Web links
- Hooper Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hooper Glacier on geographic.org (English)