Hurd Dome

Hurd Dome
	View of the Hurd Peninsula to the west with the Hurd Dome
height	375 m
location	Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands
Coordinates	62 ° 40 '55 " S , 60 ° 21' 59" W Coordinates: 62 ° 40 '55 " S , 60 ° 21' 59" W

The Hurd Dome ( Spanish Glaciar Hurd , in the United Kingdom Hurd Ice Cap ) is an approximately 375 m high ice dome on Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It occupies the central part of the Hurd Peninsula .

The name was given in 1995 by a Spanish Antarctic expedition, the name of which was transferred to its current form in 2004 by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names . It is named after Thomas Hannaford Hurd (1747-1823), from 1808 to 1823 second hydrographer of the British Admiralty and member of the Board of Longitude .

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