Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Hobbs Glacier

(James Ross Island)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 64° 16' 54" S 57° 28' 47" W
flowing SE into Markham Bay, James Ross Island, was surveyed by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition in 1902-03 and named Hobbs Gletscher, after William Herbert Hobbs (1864-1953), American geologist and glaciologist, who also wrote on early discoveries in Antarctica (e.g. Hobbs, 1939a); Professor of Geology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1906-34; author of 'Characteristics of Existing Glaciers' (1911); Leader of three expeditions to Greenland, 1926-28. The glacier was resurveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from 'Hope Bay' in August 1953.