Tyrrell Glacier Explained

Tyrrell Glacier
Map:United Kingdom South Georgia
Mark:Blue_pog.svg
Location:South Georgia
Coordinates:-54.3667°N -67°W
Thickness:unknown
Terminus:Harker Glacier
Status:unknown

Tyrrell Glacier is a glacier flowing north into the head of Moraine Fjord where it joins Harker Glacier, on the north coast of South Georgia.

In 1982, the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC), in association with Harker Glacier, named the Tyrell Glacier, after George Walter Tyrrell (1883–1961). Tyrell was a senior lecturer in geology, at the University of Glasgow from 1919–48, and authored several papers on the petrology of South Georgia, the South Shetland Islands, and the Palmer Archipelago area.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Tyrrell Glacier . Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey. 24 January 2018.