Hermes Glacier
Hermes Glacier () is a glacier long, flowing west into Weyerhaeuser Glacier in southern Graham Land, Antarctica. It was surveyed in January 1960 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey who discovered the glacier after several fruitless attempts to find a route out of the mountains east of Earnshaw Glacier. It provided an ideal "road" back to known country and was therefore named after Hermes, the god of roads in Greek mythology. This name by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee initiated the idea of naming other features in this area after Greek gods.
Q35666
glacier
Concept
Q7990317
Weyerhaeuser Glacier
LOC
Q618370
Graham Land
LOC
Q918757
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey
ORG
Q5326961
Earnshaw Glacier
LOC
Q41484
Hermes
MISC
Q34726
Greek mythology
Concept
Q826644
UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
PER
Q5741383
Hermes Glacier
LOC
1960-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
January 1960
DATE
instance of
instance of
worshipped by