McLeod Glacier (Signy Island)

McLeod Glacier
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location	Signy Island , South Orkney Islands
length	1.5 km
Coordinates	60 ° 43 ′ 16 ″ S , 45 ° 37 ′ 30 ″ W Coordinates: 60 ° 43 ′ 16 ″ S , 45 ° 37 ′ 30 ″ W
drainage	Clowes Bay

The McLeod Glacier is a 1.5 km long glacier on Signy Island in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . It flows in a southeast direction to Clowes Bay in the south of the island.

The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out measurements of the glacier in 1947. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1955 after the Scottish sealer captain Michael McLeod, in command of the Beaufoy of London , with which he had reached the South Orkney Islands on December 12, 1821, six days after the archipelago was discovered by George Powell and Nathaniel Palmer .

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