Crean Glacier
| Crean Glacier | ||
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 Mouth of the Crean Glacier into the Antarctic Bay |
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| location | South Georgia | |
| Mountains | Wilckens Peaks | |
| length | 6 km | |
| Coordinates | 54 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ S , 37 ° 1 ′ 6 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Antarctic Bay | |
The Crean Glacier is a 6 km long glacier on the north coast of South Georgia . It flows from the Wilckens Peaks in a north-westerly direction to the head end of Antarctic Bay .
The South Georgia Survey mapped it as part of its surveying campaign, which lasted from 1951 to 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named him in 1958 after Thomas Crean (1877-1938), second officer on board the Endurance in the Endurance expedition (1914-1917) led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton . The glacier is on the overland route that Shackleton, Crean and Frank Worsley took after their rescue trip from Elephant Island from King Haakon Bay to Stromness .
Web links
- Crean Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Crean Glacier on geographic.org (English)