Buxton Glacier

Buxton Glacier
Type tidewater
Location Saint Andrews Bay, South Georgia
Terminus Saint Andrews Bay
Status retreating

Buxton Glacier is a glacier flowing northeast between Heaney Glacier and Cook Glacier, on the north coast of the island of South Georgia, immediately south of Mount Skittle. The terminus of Buxton Glacier is located at Saint Andrews Bay.[1] Buxton Glacier is close to Ross Glacier, which is leaving a gravel beach in the wake of its retreat.

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Discovery and naming

Buxton Glacier was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1987 after three members of the Buxton family: Major Aubrey Leland Oakes Buxton (Baron Buxton of Alsa),[2] Pamela Mary Birkin (Baroness Buxton of Alsa),[3] and their daughter the Hon. Lucinda Catherine (Cindy) Buxton, FRGS,[4] who visited South Georgia in March 1982.[1][5]

Flora and fauna

There is a King Penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) rookery near the terminus of Buxton Glacier at Saint Andrews Bay. This breeding colony has more than 100,000 penguins. Because of the long breeding cycle, the colony is continuously occupied.

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References

  1. ^ a b "Buxton Glacier". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:5:::NO::P5_ANTAR_ID:2235. Retrieved 06 June 2010. 
  2. ^ Darryl Lundy (7 September 2009). "A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe: Major Aubrey Leland Oakes Buxton, Baron Buxton of Alsa". Ngaio, Wellington, New Zealand: thePeerage.com. http://www.thepeerage.com/p5051.htm#i50504. Retrieved 4 June 2010. 
  3. ^ Darryl Lundy (17 June 2006). "A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe: Pamela Mary Birkin". Ngaio, Wellington, New Zealand: thePeerage.com. http://www.thepeerage.com/p5051.htm#i50501. Retrieved 4 June 2010. 
  4. ^ Darryl Lundy (17 June 2006). "A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe: Hon. Lucinda Catherine Buxton". Ngaio, Wellington, New Zealand: thePeerage.com. http://www.thepeerage.com/p5050.htm#i50496. Retrieved 4 June 2010. 
  5. ^ "Buxton Glacier". Australian Antarctic Data Centre. http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=50998. Retrieved 06 June 2010. 

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