Horton Glacier
| Horton Glacier | ||
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| location | Adelaide Island , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | The Princess Royal Range | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 33 ′ S , 68 ° 29 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Ryder Bay | |
The Horton Glacier is a glacier on the West Antarctic Adelaide Island . In the Princess Royal Range it flows east of Mount Barré and Mount Gaudry in a southeast direction to Ryder Bay .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1978 after Colin Philip Horton (* 1951), who worked as a construction worker for the British Antarctic Survey from 1976 to 1977 at the neighboring Rothera station .
Web links
- Horton Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Horton Glacier on geographic.org (English)