Lucas Glacier

Lucas Glacier
Location of Lucas Glacier in South Georgia
Location	South Georgia
Coordinates	54°4′S 37°18′W / 54.067°S 37.300°W / -54.067; -37.300
Thickness	unknown
Terminus	Bay of Isles
Status	unknown

Lucas Glacier (54°4′S 37°18′W / 54.067°S 37.300°W / -54.067; -37.300Coordinates: 54°4′S 37°18′W / 54.067°S 37.300°W / -54.067; -37.300) is a glacier flowing north into the Bay of Isles, South Georgia, close west of Luck Point. It was charted in 1912–13 by Robert Cushman Murphy, an American naturalist aboard the brig Daisy, who named it for Frederic Augustus Lucas, Director of the American Museum of Natural History at that time.^[1][2]

See also

• List of glaciers in the Antarctic
• Glaciology
• Mount Ashley

References

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