Hunt glacier
| Hunt glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 52 ′ S , 162 ° 25 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Granite Harbor | |
The Hunt Glacier is a comparatively short karate glacier on the Scott Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows north of Dreikanter Head into Granite Harbor .
The glacier was discovered by participants in the Nimrod Expedition (1907-1909) led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton and named after the Australian meteorologist Henry Ambrose Hunt (1866-1946), who helped evaluate the scientific data of the Nimrod Expedition .
See also
Web links
- Hunt Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hunt Glacier on geographic.org (English)
- Hunt Glacier. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 166 (English)