Grace Glacier

Grace Glacier
Map showing the location of Grace Glacier
Location of Grace Glacier in South Georgia
Location South Georgia
Coordinates 54°4′S 37°23′W / 54.067°S 37.383°W / -54.067; -37.383
Thickness unknown
Terminus Bay of Isles
Status unknown

Grace Glacier is a glacier which flows north into Ample Bay at the Bay of Isles, near Salisbury Plain, South Georgia. It was charted in 1912–13 by Robert Cushman Murphy, an American naturalist aboard the brig Daisy, who named it for his wife, Grace Barstow Murphy.[1]

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References

  1. ↑ "Grace Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2012-05-02.

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Coordinates: 54°4′S 37°23′W / 54.067°S 37.383°W / -54.067; -37.383


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