Tyrrell glacier
| Tyrrell glacier | ||
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| location | South Georgia | |
| Mountains | Allardyce Range | |
| Coordinates | 54 ° 23 ′ S , 36 ° 31 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Moraine Fjord | |
The Tyrrell Glacier is a glacier on the north coast of South Georgia . It flows from the Allardyce Range in a northerly direction to the head end of Moraine Fjord , where it meets the Harker Glacier .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it together with the Harker Glacier in 1982. It is named after the British geologist George Walter Tyrrell (1883–1961) from the University of Glasgow .
Web links
- Tyrrell Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tyrrell Glacier on geographic.org (English)