Morris Glacier

Morris Glacier

Morris Glacier (54°5′S 37°14′W / 54.083°S 37.233°W / -54.083; -37.233) is a glacier flowing north to the head of Sea Leopard Fjord in the Bay of Isles, South Georgia. Charted in 1912-13 by Robert Cushman Murphy, American naturalist aboard the brig Daisy, who named it for Edward Lyman Morris, a botanist who was then head of the Deptartment of Natural Science at the Brooklyn Museum.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Morris Glacier" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).


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