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Location of Velingrad Peninsula on Graham Coast, Antarctic Peninsula.
Hoek Glacier (66°0′S 65°4′WCoordinates: 66°0′S 65°4′W) is a glacier flowing into Dimitrov Cove on the northwest coast of Velingrad Peninsula on Graham Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica, southward of theLlanquihue Islands. It was charted by the British Graham Land Expedition under Rymill, 1934–37, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1959 for Henry W. Hoek (1878–1951), a pioneer Swiss (formerly German) ski-mountaineer and author of one of the earliest skiing manuals.
Maps
British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 65 64. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1971.
British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 66 64. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1976.
References
^ "Hoek Glacier". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. Retrieved 2012-06-20.
SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Surveydocument "Hoek Glacier" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).
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