Hektor Icefall

Hektor Icefall is an icefall extending in an arc about five nautical miles long at on the north-west side of Sherratt Bay, on the south coast of King George Island in the South Shetland Islands, and part of the British Antarctic Territory.

Following surveys by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from "Admiralty Bay" from 1948 and air photography by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Air Survey Expedition in 1956, it was named after the Hektor Whaling Company which operated a land station at Whalers Bay, Deception Island, 1912-1931, and worked chiefly in the waters of the South Shetland Islands.

Location map

• Location: 62°0’14"S, 57°45’40"W

References

• Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Hektor Icefall