Hippocrates Glacier

Location of Brabant Island in the Antarctic Peninsula region.

Hippocrates Glacier (64°22′S 62°22′W / 64.367°S 62.367°W / -64.367; -62.367Coordinates: 64°22′S 62°22′W / 64.367°S 62.367°W / -64.367; -62.367) is a glacier at least 3 nautical miles (6 km) long and 2 nautical miles (4 km) wide, draining the southeast slopes of Stribog Mountains and flowing southeast between Solvay Mountains and Gutsal Ridge into Buls Bay on the east side of Brabant Island, in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. It was shown on an Argentine government chart in 1953, but not named. The glacier was photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd in 1956–57, and mapped from these photos in 1959. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Hippocrates, a Greek physician and author of numerous works on medicine, who also established a professional code of medical conduct.^[1]

Maps

• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.
• British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1980.
• Brabant Island to Argentine Islands. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. British Antarctic Survey, 2008.

References

Brabant Island seen from northeast, with Anvers Island (on the right) and Antarctic Peninsula in the background.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Hippocrates Glacier" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).