Hugi Glacier
| Hugi Glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 14 ′ S , 65 ° 5 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Holtedahl Bay | |
The Hugi Glacier is a glacier on the Graham Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows north to Holtedahl Bay .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill mapped it. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1959 after the Swiss geologist Franz Joseph Hugi (1796–1855), the "father of winter mountaineering".
Web links
- Hugi Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hugi Glacier on geographic.org (English)