Tyrrell Glacier

Tyrrell Glacier
Location of Tyrrell Glacier in South Georgia
Location	South Georgia
Coordinates	54°22′S 36°31′W / 54.367°S 36.517°W / -54.367; -36.517
Thickness	unknown
Terminus	Harker Glacier
Status	unknown

Tyrrell Glacier (

54°22′S 36°31′W / 54.367°S 36.517°W / -54.367; -36.517Coordinates: 54°22′S 36°31′W / 54.367°S 36.517°W / -54.367; -36.517) 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 Walter 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.^[1]

See also[]

• List of glaciers in the Antarctic
• Glaciology

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