Huntress Glacier

Huntress Glacier is a 7 km long and 3.7 km wide glacier on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica bounded by Friesland Ridge, Tangra Mountains to the southeast, Nesebar Gap, Pliska Ridge, Burdick Ridge and Willan Nunatak to the north, and Charrúa Gap and Napier Peak to the northwest, and flowing southwestwards into the head of False Bay.

The feature is named by the UK-APC in 1958 after the American schooner Huntress (Capt. Christopher Burdick) from Nantucket, which visited the South Shetland Islands in 1820-21 in company with the Huron of New Haven (CT).

Location

The glacier's midpoint is located at (British mapping in 1968, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).

Maps

Reference

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Huntress Glacier" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).