The Hood Glacier is a glacier in the Ōtākou / Otago region of the Te Waipounamu / South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand.
It has a latitude of -44.420736 and a longitude of 168.747868 and it’s status is: Official Assigned.
Name submitted by Paul Powell of Dunedin, for inclusion on maps in Men Aspiring, which he had written. Mr Powell had a 24 year association with the area. The glacier is named after Captain George Hood, who with Lieutenant John Moncrieff disappeared in an attempt to fly across the Tasman Sea on 10 January 1928, eight months before Kingsford-Smiths flight.
It’s geographical description is noted as: Glacier on the northeastern slopes of Mount Avalanche. Matukituki Survey District..