Hamberg glacier
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The Hamberg Glacier flows into the Moraine Fjord (photographed by Frank Hurley in 1914) |
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location | South Georgia | |
Coordinates | 54 ° 21 ′ S , 36 ° 34 ′ W | |
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drainage | Moraine Fjord |
The Hamberg Glacier is a glacier on South Georgia . It flows in an east-northeast direction from the northeast side of Mount Sugartop to the western head end of Moraine Fjord .
It was mapped during the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under the direction of Otto Nordenskjöld . He named the glacier after the Swedish geographer, mineralogist and Arctic explorer Axel Hamberg (1863–1933).
Web links
- Hamberg Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hamberg Glacier on geographic.org (English)