Brunonia Glacier

Brunonia Glacier
Location of Brunonia Glacier in South Georgia
Location	South Georgia
Coordinates	54°3′S 37°29′W / 54.050°S 37.483°W / -54.050; -37.483
Thickness	unknown
Terminus	Bay of Isles
Status	unknown

Brunonia Glacier (54°3′S 37°29′W / 54.050°S 37.483°W / -54.050; -37.483Coordinates: 54°3′S 37°29′W / 54.050°S 37.483°W / -54.050; -37.483) is a glacier which flows east to the head of Sunset Fjord in the Bay of Isles, South Georgia. It was charted in 1912–13 by American ornithologist and naturalist Robert Cushman Murphy, who visited South Georgia aboard the sealing brig Daisy of New Bedford, Massachusetts under Captain Benjamin D. Cleveland. Murphy named the glacier for his alma mater, Brown University, "brunonia" being a Latinized form of its name.^[1]

See also

• List of glaciers in the Antarctic
• Glaciology

References

•  This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Brunonia Glacier" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).