Hektoria Glacier
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The Hektoria Glacier is a prominent glacier of Graham Land in the British Antarctic Territory. It flows south-eastwards into the Larsen Ice Shelf to the west of Shiver Point, on the Oscar II Coast.
This glacier was photographed from the air by Wilkins on 20 December 1928, and reported as "long ice-filled fiords almost severing Graham Land" (to the south-west of Drygalski Glacier). Wilkins applied the name 'Hektoria Fiords', after the whaling factory ship Hektoria, of the Hektor Whaling Company (from which also the Hektor Icefall is named): the Hektoria transported the Wilkins expedition to Deception Island. In September 1955, a survey by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from "Hope Bay" identified the feature named by Wilkins as three glaciers; the main glacier was given the name 'Hektoria' and two were left unnamed. The glacier was photographed from the air by United States Navy in the 1968-1969 season.
Location
- Location map: 64°50’34"S, 61°45’13"W
References
- Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Hektoria Glacier
- Antarctic glacier's rapid retreat sparks scientific 'whodunnit' - BBC News 2 November 2025