McLeod Glacier (South Orkney Islands)
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McLeod Glacier is a glacier long, flowing in a southeasterly direction into Clowes Bay on the south side of Signy Island, in the
South Orkney Islands The South Orkney Islands are a group of islands in the Southern Ocean, about north-east of the tip of the Antarctic PeninsulaUK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1954 for Michael McLeod, following a survey by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1947. On December 12, 1821, the cutter ''Beaufoy'' under McLeod sailed to a position at least west of the South Orkney Islands, where a chart annotation indicates that land was sighted, possibly Coronation Island.


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List of glaciers in the Antarctic There are many glaciers in the Antarctic. This set of lists does not include ice sheets, ice caps or ice fields, such as the Antarctic ice sheet, but includes glacial features that are defined by their flow, rather than general bodies of ice. Th ...
* Glaciology


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Glaciers of the South Orkney Islands {{Antarctica-glacier-stub