Description
Portlock Glacier is located on Kenai Peninsula trends NW to an unnamed stream, 3 mi. E of Kachemak Bay and 18 mi. E of Homer, Chugach Mts.
History
Named by A.H. Brooks, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in 1913, for Captain Nathaniel Portlock, Commander of the English vessel King George, who with Captain George Dixon, Royal Navy (RN), commander of the English vessel Queen Charlotte, did extensive exploration along the south coast of Alaska in 1786 and 1787.