McLeod Glacier (Signy Island)
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location | Signy Island , South Orkney Islands | |
length | 1.5 km | |
Coordinates | 60 ° 43 ′ 16 ″ S , 45 ° 37 ′ 30 ″ W | |
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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 .
Web links
- McLeod Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- McLeod Glacier on geographic.org (English)