Aitkenhead Glacier
Location of Trinity Peninsula
Map showing the location of Aitkenhead Glacier
Map showing the location of Aitkenhead Glacier
Location of Aitkenhead Glacier in Antarctica
LocationGraham Land
Coordinates63°57′S 58°44′W / 63.950°S 58.733°W / -63.950; -58.733
Length16 km (9.9 mi)
TerminusDetroit Plateau

Aitkenhead Glacier (63°57′S 58°44′W / 63.950°S 58.733°W / -63.950; -58.733) is a 10-mile (16 km) long glacier flowing east-southeast from the Detroit Plateau, Graham Land, (south of Mancho Buttress and Baley Nunatak and north of Simpson Nunatak and Hitar Petar Nunatak) into Prince Gustav Channel (close north of Alectoria Island). It was mapped from surveys by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) (1960–61), and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Neil Aitkenhead, a FIDS geologist at Hope Bay (1959–60).

See also

Map

  • Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.

References

  • SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
  • Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from "Aitkenhead Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.


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