Quensel Glacier
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| location | South Georgia | |
| Coordinates | 54 ° 47 ′ S , 35 ° 51 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Cooper Bay | |
The Quensel Glacier is a small glacier on the eastern foothills of South Georgia . It flows southeast towards Cooper Bay .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1977 after the Swedish geologist Percy Dudgeon Quensel (1881-1966), who had visited South Georgia in 1909 with Carl Johan Fredrik Skottsberg .
Web links
- Quensel Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Quensel Glacier on geographic.org (English)