Las Palmas Glacier
Location of Hurd Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Las Palmas Glacier (62°41′S 60°25′W / 62.683°S 60.417°WCoordinates: 62°41′S 60°25′W / 62.683°S 60.417°W) is a glacier flowing west-northwest from Hurd Dome and terminating at Las Palmas Cove, South Bay, Livingston Island, Antarctica. The name was given by the Spanish Antarctic Expedition, about 1991, after the ship Las Palmas of the Spanish Antarctic campaigns since 1988.[1]
Maps
- Isla Livingston: Península Hurd. Mapa topográfico de escala 1:25000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1991.
- L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
- L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4
References
- ↑ "Las Palmas Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2013-06-03.
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