Murray snow field
| Murray snow field | ||
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| location | South Georgia | |
| Coordinates | 54 ° 9 ′ S , 37 ° 9 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Possession Bay | |
The Murray Snowfield is a snowfield on the island of South Georgia . It is 3 km south of Possession Bay .
Participants in the Second German Antarctic Expedition (1911–1912) under the direction of Wilhelm Filchner named a glacier that supposedly flows into Possession Bay as the John Murray Glacier . In the investigations of the South Georgia Survey between 1955 and 1956 such a glacier could not be identified. Therefore, the name was transferred to the snow field described here. It is named after the British oceanographer John Murray (1841–1914).
Web links
- Murray Snowfield in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Murray Snowfield on geographic.org (English)