Hoseason Glacier

Hoseason Glacier
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location	Kempland , East Antarctica
length	20 km
Coordinates	67 ° 6 ′ S , 58 ° 7 ′ E Coordinates: 67 ° 6 ′ S , 58 ° 7 ′ E
drainage	Cooperation lake

The Hoseason Glacier (Norwegian Slotviktangen for pillar tongue ) is a 20 km long glacier in the East Antarctic Kempland . It flows in a northerly direction and flows into the Cooperation Sea between the surf piers East Stack and West Stack , 24 km east of Edward VIII Bay and 19 km west of Brøka Island .

Norwegian cartographers roughly mapped it using aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . A sled team of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions visited him in 1954. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named the glacier after the Australian polar explorer Richard Hoseason (1921-1952), who on May 26, 1952 on Heard Island with a Attempt to rescue a troubled teammate drowned.

Web links

Hoseason Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
Hoseason Glacier on geographic.org (English)

Individual evidence

^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 757 (English).
↑ Clarissa Thorpe: Heroic act remembered through extraordinary coincidence. Information on the homepage of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation dated December 23, 2003 (accessed July 29, 2017).

[1] John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 757 (English).

[2] Clarissa Thorpe: Heroic act remembered through extraordinary coincidence. Information on the homepage of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation dated December 23, 2003 (accessed July 29, 2017).