Hotine Glacier
Glacier in Graham Land, Antarctica
Hotine Glacier (65°8′S 63°52′W / 65.133°S 63.867°W / -65.133; -63.867) is a glacier 10 nautical miles (19 km) long which is divided at its mouth by Mount Cloos, flowing west into both Deloncle Bay and Girard Bay on Kyiv Peninsula, on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It was first charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache, 1897–99, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1959 for Brigadier Martin Hotine, Director of Overseas Surveys.[1]
See also
- Mount Matin, surmounts the mountainous divide north of Hotine Glacier
References
- ^ "Hotine Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 28 June 2012.
External links
- SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
This article incorporates public domain material from "Hotine Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
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- List of glaciers in the Antarctic: A–H
- List of glaciers in the Antarctic: I–Z
- Adélie Land
- Bouvet Island
- Coats Land
- Ellsworth Land
- Enderby Land
- Graham Land
- Heard Island and McDonald Islands
- James Ross Island and Graham Land
- Kaiser Wilhelm II Land
- Kemp Land
- Mac. Robertson Land
- Marie Byrd Land
- Oates Land
- Palmer Archipelago and Graham Land
- Palmer Land
- Princess Elizabeth Land
- Queen Elizabeth Land
- Queen Mary Land
- Queen Maud Land
- Ross Dependency
- South Georgia
- South Shetland Islands
- South Orkney Islands
- Trinity Peninsula and Graham Land
- Victoria Land
- Wilkes Land
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