Northeast Glacier

Location of Hemimont Plateau on the Antarctic Peninsula.

Northeast Glacier as seen from San Martín Base

Northeast Glacier is a steep, heavily crevassed glacier on the west side of Hemimont Plateau, 21 km (13 mi) long and 8 km (5 mi) wide at its mouth, which flows from McLeod Hill westward and then south-westwards into Marguerite Bay between the Debenham Islands and Roman Four Promontory, on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. Northeast Glacier was first surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) under John Riddoch Rymill. It was resurveyed in 1940 by members of the United States Antarctic Service (USAS), who first used the glacier as a sledging route, and so named by them because it lay on the north-eastern side of their base at Stonington Island.

See also

List of glaciers in the Antarctic

References

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

Coordinates: 68°09′S 66°58′W / 68.150°S 66.967°W / -68.150; -66.967

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