Hopkins_Glacier

Hopkins Glacier

Hopkins Glacier

Glacier in Antarctica


Hopkins Glacier is a glacier situated south of Erskine Glacier and flowing westwards into the head of Tlachene Cove in Darbel Bay on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It was photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd in 1955–57, and mapped from these photos by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1958 for Sir Frederick Hopkins, founder of the School of Biochemistry at Cambridge University, who made pioneer investigations on synthetic diets and vitamins which contributed greatly to the development of present ideas on concentrated rations.[1]

Location of Loubet Coast on the Antarctic Peninsula.

References

  1. "Hopkins Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2012-06-25.

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from "Hopkins Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.

66°36′S 65°42′W



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