The Hecuba Glacier is a glacier in the Waitaha / Canterbury region of the Te Waipounamu / South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand.

It has a latitude of -43.347683 and a longitude of  170.835861 and it’s status is: Official Assigned.

As with the previous entry, named by L.K. Wilson, after a character in Shakespeare’s play Troilus and Cressida. Source: Reed, A.W. & Peter Dowling, Place Names of New Zealand, 2010.

It’s geographical description is noted as: Glacier south of Hector Glacier, between Armoury Range and the Southern Alps/Kā Tiritiri o te Moana. It flows into Billy McCoy Creek a tributary of McCoy Stream.


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