Huntress Glacier
Huntress Glacier is a glacier four miles long and two and a half miles wide flowing south-westwards into the head of False Bay on the south coast of Livingston Island, one of the South Shetland Islands in the British Antarctic Territory.
The glacier is to the east of Johnsons Glacier, south-east of Contell Glacier and Balkan Snowfield, south of upper Perunika Glacier, southwest of Huron Glacier and north-west of Macy Glacier, and is bounded by ridge of Mount Friesland to the southeast, Nesebar Gap, Pliska Ridge, Burdick Ridge and Willan Nunatak are to the north, and the Charrúa Gap and Napier Peak to the north-west.
The glacier was photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition in 1956-57, and surveyed from the ground by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1957-58.
The Huntress Glacier was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1958 in association with the names of nineteenth-century sealers in this area; this glacier is named after the American schooner Huntress (whose Captain was Christopher Burdick) from Nantucket, which visited the South Shetland Islands in 1820–21 in company with the Huron of New Haven, Connecticut.
Location
- Location map: 62°40’35"S, 60°15’45"W
References
- Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Huntress Glacier
