Tyrrell Glacier

Tyrrell Glacier

Tyrrell Glacier (coord|54|22|S|36|31|W|type:glacier) is a glacier flowing north into the head of Moraine Fjord where it joins Harker Glacier, on the north coast of South Georgia. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC), 1982, in association with Harker Glacier, after George W. Tyrrell (1883-1961), Senior Lecturer in geology, Glasgow University, 1919-48, author of several early papers on the petrology of South Georgia, the South Shetland Islands, and the Palmer Archipelago area.


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