Hopkins Glacier
| Hopkins Glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 35 ′ S , 65 ° 34 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Tlachene Cove | |
The Hopkins Glacier is a glacier on the Loubet Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows south of the Erskine Glacier into the Tlachene Cove , a side bay of Darbel Bay .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped the area using aerial photographs from Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. from 1955 to 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the glacier in 1958 after the British Nobel Prize for Medicine Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861-1947).
Web links
- Hopkins Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hopkins Glacier on geographic.org (English)