Hoek Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Hoek Glacier (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Glacier
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
flowing NW from Simler Snowfield towards Harrison Passage, was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57; in association with the names of pioneers of ski-mountaineering grouped in this area, named after Henry William Hoek (1875-1951), pioneer Swiss (originally German) ski-mountaineer and author of Der Schi und seine sportliche Benutzung (München, 1906), one of the earliest skiing manuals (APC, 1959a p.7; BA chart 3573, 26.viii.1960).
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