Grace Glacier

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Grace Glacier (54°4′S 37°23′W / 54.067°S 37.383°W / -54.067; -37.383Coordinates: 54°4′S 37°23′W / 54.067°S 37.383°W / -54.067; -37.383) 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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 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Grace Glacier" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).


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