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]