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McLeod Glacier
Location of McLeod Glacier in the South Orkney Islands
Location	South Orkney Islands
Coordinates	60°44′S 45°38′W / 60.733°S 45.633°W / -60.733; -45.633
Length	1 nmi (2 km; 1 mi)
Terminus	Clowes Bay

McLeod Glacier is a glacier 1 nautical mile (2 km) long, flowing in a southeasterly direction into Clowes Bay on the south side of Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands off Antarctica. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1954 for Michael McLeod, following a survey by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1947. On 12 December 1821, the cutter Beaufoy under McLeod sailed to a position at least 60 nautical miles (110 km) west of the South Orkney Islands, where a chart annotation indicates that land was sighted, possibly Coronation Island.

See also

• List of glaciers in the Antarctic
• Glaciology

References

1. "McLeod Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 9 September 2013.
2. Alberts, Fred G., ed. (June 1995). Geographic Names of the Antarctic (PDF) (second ed.). United States Board on Geographic Names. p. 479. Retrieved 5 April 2012.

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

60°44′S 45°38′W / 60.733°S 45.633°W / -60.733; -45.633

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