Huntress Glacier

Huntress Glacier
Location of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands
Map showing the location of Huntress Glacier
Map showing the location of Huntress Glacier
Location of Huntress Glacier in Antarctica
Map showing the location of Huntress Glacier
Map showing the location of Huntress Glacier
Huntress Glacier (Antarctica)
LocationLivingston Island
South Shetland Islands
Coordinates62°40′00″S 60°15′45″W / 62.66667°S 60.26250°W / -62.66667; -60.26250
Length4.3 nautical miles (8.0 km; 4.9 mi)
Width2.3 nautical miles (4.3 km; 2.6 mi)
Thicknessunknown
TerminusFalse Bay
Statusunknown
Huntress Glacier from Willan Saddle.
Topographic map of Livingston Island and Smith Island.

Huntress Glacier is a glacier 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) long and 3.7 kilometres (2.3 mi) wide flowing into the head of False Bay, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is situated east of Johnsons Glacier, southeast of Contell Glacier and Balkan Snowfield, south of upper Perunika Glacier, southwest of Huron Glacier and northwest of Macy Glacier, and is bounded by Friesland Ridge and the 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.

The glacier was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1958 after the American schooner Huntress (Captain Christopher Burdick) from Nantucket, which visited the South Shetland Islands in 1820–21 in company with the Huron of New Haven, Connecticut.[1]

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