Stenhouse Glacier
| Stenhouse Glacier | ||
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| location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 4 ′ S , 58 ° 23 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Visca Anchorage | |
The Stenhouse Glacier is a small glacier on the south coast of King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It joins the head end of Visca Anchorage Bay immediately west of Stenhouse Bluff .
Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot mapped it, but left it unnamed. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 based on the name of the Stenhouse Bluff. Its namesake is Joseph Russell Stenhouse (1887-1941), first officer and later captain of the Aurora in the endurance expedition (1914-1917) and captain of the Discovery in the waters around the South Shetland Islands in 1927 as part of the Discovery Investigations .
Web links
- Stenhouse Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Stenhouse Glacier on geographic.org (English)