Lyell Glacier | |
Map: | United Kingdom South Georgia |
Mark: | Blue_pog.svg |
Location: | South Georgia |
Coordinates: | -54.2833°N -73°W |
Thickness: | unknown |
Terminus: | Cumberland West Bay |
Status: | unknown |
Lyell Glacier is a glacier flowing in a northerly direction to Harpon Bay at the southeast head of Cumberland West Bay, South Georgia. It was mapped by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Otto Nordenskjöld, who named it for Sir Charles Lyell, an eminent British geologist.[1]