Huron Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Huron 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 E into Moon Bay, Livingston Island, was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57, and surveyed from the ground by FIDS, 1957-58; in association with the names of nineteenth-century sealers in this area, named after the American sealing ship Huron (Capt J. Davis, Davis Coast, q.v.), of New Haven, Conn., which visited the South Shetland Islands, 1820-21 (in company with Huntress, Huntress Glacier, q.v.) and 1821-22, using Yankee Harbour, Greenwich Island, as a base for operations and wintering in the Falkland Islands in 1821 (APC, 1959a, p.8; BA chart 1774, 14.ix.1962; DOS 610 sheet W 62 60, 1968).
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