Hughes Glacier
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location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
Mountains | Kukri Hills and Taylor Valley , Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 77 ° 44 ′ S , 162 ° 27 ′ E | |
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drainage | Bonney Lake |
The Hughes Glacier is a small, alpine glacier in East Antarctica, Victoria Land . It flows north from the Kukri Hills to Lake Bonney in the Taylor Valley .
The British geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880–1963), participant of the Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913) under the direction of the polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott , mapped it and named the glacier after the British geologist Thomas McKenny Hughes (1832–1917) ).
Web links
- Hughes Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hughes Glacier on geographic.org (English)