Harker Glacier
| Harker Glacier | ||
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| location | South Georgia | |
| Coordinates | 54 ° 22 ′ S , 36 ° 32 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Moraine Fjord | |
The Harker Glacier is a glacier on South Georgia . It flows in an east-northeast direction into the southwest end of Moraine Fjord , a side bay of Cumberland East Bay .
Scientists from the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) mapped it and named it after the Swedish geologist Gerard Jakob De Geer (1858–1943). The Scottish geologist David Ferguson carried out a new survey in 1912 and named the glacier after the British petrologist Alfred Harker (1859–1939). The latter name prevailed.
Web links
- Harker Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Harker Glacier on geographic.org (English)