Aitkenhead Glacier

Aitkenhead Glacier (63°57′S 58°44′W) is a 10 nautical miles (19 km; 12 mi) long glacier flowing east-southeast from the Detroit Plateau, Graham Land, into Prince Gustav Channel (close north of Alectoria Island).^[1]

Aitkenhead Glacier
Location of Aitkenhead Glacier in Antarctica
Location	Graham Land, Antarctica
Coordinates	63°57′S 58°44′W}
Length	16 km (9.9 mi)

Location

Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. Louis Philippe Plateau towards the southwest

Aitkenhead Glacier is in Graham Land on the south coast of the Trinity Peninsula, which forms the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. It descends in a southeast direction from the Detroit Plateau to enter Prince Gustav Channel opposite Alectoria Island. Nearby features include Tufft Nunatak to the north and Simpson Nunatak and Mount Roberts to the south.^[2][3]

Mapping and name

Aitkenhead Glacier was mapped from surveys by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) (1960–61). It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Neil Aitkenhead, a FIDS geologist at Hope Bay (1959–60).^[1]

Nearby features

Nearby features include, from west to east:

Mount Roberts

64°00′S 58°49′W. A dark, mostly ice-free rock peak with a flat, sloping top, 955 metres (3,133 ft) high, which is isolated from the Detroit Plateau to the west and lies 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) south of Aitkenhead Glacier. First charted by the FIDS, 1945, and named for D.W. Roberts, Manager of the Falkland Islands Company in 1945, who was of assistance to the expedition.^[4]

Mancho Buttress

63°54′58″S 58°50′52″W. An ice-covered buttress rising to 1,386 metres (4,547 ft)^[5] high on the northeast side of Detroit Plateau. Situated 4.61 kilometres (2.86 mi) northwest of Baley Nunatak. Precipitous and partly ice-free southwest slopes. Surmounting Aitkenhead Glacier to the southwest and south. Named after Mancho Peak in Rila mountain, Southwestern Bulgaria.^[6]

Baley Nunatak

63°56′44″S 58°46′54″W. A rocky hill rising to 632 metres (2,073 ft)^[7] high on the north side of Aitkenhead Glacier. Situated in the southeast foothills of Mancho Buttress, 4.69 kilometres (2.91 mi) northwest of Hitar Petar Nunatak and 6.45 kilometres (4.01 mi) north-northwest of Mount Roberts. Named after the settlement of Baley in Northwestern Bulgaria.^[8]

Hitar Petar Nunatak

63°57′58″S 58°42′12″W. A rocky hill rising to 434 metres (1,424 ft)^[9] high on the coast of Prince Gustav Channel, next south of the terminus of Aitkenhead Glacier. Situated 7.35 kilometres (4.57 mi) northeast of Mount Roberts, 4.69 kilometres (2.91 mi) southeast of Baley Nunatak and 435 kilometres (270 mi) south of Tuff Nunatak. Named after the Bulgarian folkloric hero Hitar Petar ("Sly Peter").^[10]

Tufft Nunatak

63°55′S 58°42′W. A small nunatak 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) southwest of Mount Bradley. Named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Ronald W. Tufft of FIDS, a member of the reconnaissance party for the Detroit Plateau journey in February 1957.^[11]