McLeod Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
McLeod 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 SSE into Clowes Bay, Signy Island, following surveys by FIDS, 1947-50, was named after Capt. Michael McLeod, Master of the cutter Beaufoy (Beaufoy Ridge, q.v.), June 1821-September 1822, who independently discovered the South Orkney Islands (q.v.), 12 December 1821, 6 days after the original discovery by Powell and Palmer (APC, 1955, p.14; DOS 510 South Orkney Islands, West Sheet, 1963; [incorrectly applied to entire ice cap of Signy Island] DOS 210 Signy Island sheet, 1-DOS 1973; [correctly applied] 2-DOS 1975).
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