The glacier was surveyed from the ground by members of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey who travelled along it in December 1958 , and it was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Thomas Hariot , an English mathematician who pioneered new methods of navigation under the patronage of Sir Walter Raleigh .
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