McLeod Glacier (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 December 12, 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]

References

  1. ↑ "McLeod Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2013-09-09.
  2. ↑ Alberts, Fred G., ed. (June 1995). Geographic Names of the Antarctic (PDF) (second ed.). United States Board on Geographic Names. p. 479. Retrieved 2012-04-05.

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

Coordinates: 60°44′S 45°38′W / 60.733°S 45.633°W / -60.733; -45.633


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