Huron Glacier
Huron Glacier is a glacier in the east of Livingston Island, one of the South Shetland Islands in the British Antarctic Territory, flowing eastwards into Moon Bay on the island's south coast. It is about five miles long and just over two miles wide, and is to be found to the east of the Perunika Glacier, south-east of the Kaliakra Glacier, west-northwest of the Iskar Glacier and north-east of the Huntress Glacier. At the glacier's northern edge rises Bowles Ridge, and its southern edge is on the major mountains of the island. The Wörner Gap is to the west.
The glacier receives ice influx from several tributary glaciers draining the northern slopes of the moutains, between Mount Friesland and Helmet Peak, and running east-northeastwards to empty into Moon Bay.
The glacier was photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition of 1956-57 and surveyed from the ground by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in the 1957-58 season. It was named in association with the names of nineteenth-century sealers in this area; the Huron Glacier being named after the American sealing ship Huron (under Captain J. Davis, from whom the Davis Coast is named), of New Haven, Connecticut, which visited the South Shetland Islands in 1820-21 in company with the Huntress (whence the Huntress Glacier) and 1821-22, using Yankee Harbour on Greenwich Island as a base for operations and wintering in the Falkland Islands in 1821.
Location
- Location map: 62°37’41"S, 60°6’51"W
References
- Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Huron Glacier