Orwell glacier

Orwell glacier
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location	Signy Island , South Orkney Islands
Mountains	Snow Hills
length	0.8 km
Coordinates	60 ° 42 ′ 36 " S , 45 ° 37 ′ 1" W Coordinates: 60 ° 42 ′ 36 " S , 45 ° 37 ′ 1" W
drainage	Elephant Flats

The Orwell Glacier is a less than half a mile long glacier to the east of Signy Island in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . It flows from the southern slopes of the Snow Hills into the southern end of the Elephant Flats , into which it joins in the form of 20 m high ice cliffs.

Participants in the British Discovery Investigations surveyed the glacier in 1927. They named it after the transport ship Orwell of the Norwegian whaling company Tønsbergs Hvalfangeri , which operated between 1926 and 1926 and between 1929 and 1930 in the waters around the Southern Orkney Islands. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out a new survey in 1947.

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