Quensel Glacier

Quensel Glacier

Quensel Glacier (coord|54|46|S|35|50|W|type:glacier) is a small glacier flowing southeast into Cooper Bay at the east tip of South Georgia. It was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Percy D. Quensel, Swedish geologist of Uppsala University, who visited South Georgia with Carl Skottsberg in 1909.

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* List of glaciers


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