Huntress Glacier
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 View from Willan Saddle of the Huntress Glacier |
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| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 41 ′ S , 60 ° 16 ′ W | |
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| drainage | False Bay | |
The Huntress Glacier is a glacier on the south coast of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It flows in a south-westerly direction to the head of False Bay .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1958 after the schooner Huntress under Captain Christopher Burdick († 1831) from Nantucket , who had visited the South Shetland Islands between 1820 and 1821.
Web links
- Huntress Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Huntress Glacier on geographic.org (English)