Hamberg glacier

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Hamberg glacier
The Hamberg Glacier flows into the Moraine Fjord (photographed by Frank Hurley in 1914)

The Hamberg Glacier flows into the Moraine Fjord (photographed by Frank Hurley in 1914)

location South Georgia
Coordinates 54 ° 21 ′  S , 36 ° 34 ′  W Coordinates: 54 ° 21 ′  S , 36 ° 34 ′  W
Hamberg Glacier (South Georgia)
Hamberg glacier
drainage Moraine Fjord
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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).

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