Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Huntress Glacier

(Livingston Island)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 62° 40' 35" S 60° 15' 45" W
flowing SW into False Bay, Livingston Island, was photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition, 1956-57, and surveyed from the ground by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, 1957-58; in association with the names of nineteenth-century sealers in this area, named after the American schooner Huntress (Capt. C. Burdick, Burdick Peak, q.v.), from Nantucket, which visited the South Shetland Islands, 1820-21, in company with Huron (Huron Glacier, q.v.).