The Hector Glacier is a glacier in the Waitaha / Canterbury region of the Te Waipounamu / South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand.
It has a latitude of -43.340438 and a longitude of 170.833652 and it’s status is: Official Assigned.
Named by L.K. Wilson, after a character in Shakespeare’s play Troilus and Cressida. See also Hecuba Glacier. Source: Reed, A.W. & Peter Dowling, Place Names of New Zealand, 2010.
It’s geographical description is noted as: Glacier north of Hecuba Glacier, between Armoury Range and the Southern Alps/Kā Tiritiri o te Moana. It flows into Billy McCoy Creek a tributary of McCoy Stream.