Gourlay snow field

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Gourlay snow field
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location Signy Island ( South Orkney Islands )
Coordinates 60 ° 43 ′  S , 45 ° 36 ′  W Coordinates: 60 ° 43 ′  S , 45 ° 36 ′  W
Gourlay Snowfield (South Orkney Islands)
Gourlay snow field
drainage Weddell Sea

The Gourlay Snowfield is a southeast facing snowfield on Signy Island in the Archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . It is northwest of Tilbrook Hill .

Scientists from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey took surveys in 1947 and 1951. Aerial photographs were taken in 1968 by the Royal Navy . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the snowfield based on the name of the neighboring Gourlay Point . It is named after Ronald George Gourlay (1900–1987), engineer on the ships RRS Discovery and RRS Discovery II during research voyages from 1925 to 1927, 1929 to 1937 and from 1937 to 1939.

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