Tyrrell Glacier
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Tyrrell Glacier () is a glacier flowing north into the head of Moraine Fjord where it joins Harker Glacier, on the north coast of South Georgia. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC), 1982, in association with Harker Glacier, after George W. Tyrrell (1883-1961), Senior Lecturer in geology, Glasgow University, 1919-48, author of several early papers on the petrology of South Georgia, the South Shetland Islands, and the Palmer Archipelago area.
This article incorporates text from Tyrrell Glacier, in the Geographic Names Information System, operated by the United States Geological Survey, and therefore a public domain work of the United States Government.
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