Huntress Glacier
Huntress Glacier is a glacier 7 kilometres long and 3.7 kilometres wide flowing into the head of False Bay, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Napier Peak and Burdick South Peak.
Napier Peak
Peak
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Napier Peak is the partly ice-free peak rising to 380 m on Hurd Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is linked to Charrúa Gap to the north by a 1.5 km ice-covered col, and by an ice-covered saddle to Mirador Hill to the south-southwest, and surmounts Johnsons Glacier to the northwest and west, Huntress Glacier to the east, and False Bay to the south.
Burdick South Peak
Peak
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Burdick South Peak rises 544 m and is formed by an offshoot extending 1 km west-southwestwards from the southeastern extremity of Burdick Ridge in eastern Livingston Island.
Academia Peak
Peak
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Academia Peak is a peak rising to 1,253 m in the Friesland Ridge, Tangra Mountains on eastern Livingston Island in Antarctica. The peak has precipitous and ice-free north-western slopes and surmounts Huntress Glacier to the northwest and southwest.
Huntress Glacier
- Type: Glacier with an elevation of 484 metres
- Description: glacier in Antarctica
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-62.67001° or 62° 40′ 12″ southLongitude
-60.2729° or 60° 16′ 22″ westElevation
484 metres (1,588 feet)Open location code
379X8PHG+XROpenStreetMap ID
way 317346736OpenStreetMap feature
natural=glacier
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Satellite Map
Discover Huntress Glacier from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Huntress Glacier” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Huntress Glacier”
- Chinese: “亨特里斯冰川”
- German: “Huntress-Gletscher”
- Italian: “Ghiacciaio Huntress”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Huntressbreen”
- Scots: “Huntress Glacier”
- Spanish: “Huntress, glaciar”
- Swedish: “Huntress Glacier”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Camp Academia and Station P.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Mirador Hill and Troyan Peak.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Huntress Glacier”. Photo: Apcbg, CC BY-SA 3.0.