McLeod_Glacier_(South_Orkney_Islands)

McLeod Glacier (South Orkney Islands)

McLeod Glacier (South Orkney Islands)

Glacier in the South Orkney Islands

McLeod Glacier is a glacier 1 nautical mile (2 km) long, flowing in a southeasterly direction into Clowes Bay on the south side of Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands off Antarctica. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1954 for Michael McLeod, following a survey by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1947. On 12 December 1821, the cutter Beaufoy under McLeod sailed to a position at least 60 nautical miles (110 km) west of the South Orkney Islands, where a chart annotation indicates that land was sighted, possibly Coronation Island.[1][2]

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  1. [1]
    "McLeod Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 9 September 2013.
  2. [2]
    Alberts, Fred G., ed. (June 1995). Geographic Names of the Antarctic (PDF) (second ed.). United States Board on Geographic Names. p. 479. Retrieved 5 April 2012.

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