Hughes Glacier

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Hughes Glacier
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Kukri Hills and Taylor Valley , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 77 ° 44 ′  S , 162 ° 27 ′  E Coordinates: 77 ° 44 ′  S , 162 ° 27 ′  E
Hughes Glacier (Antarctica)
Hughes Glacier
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) ).

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