Hamberg Glacier
Hamberg Glacier is a glacier which flows in an east-north-easterly direction from the north-east side of Mount Sugartop to the west side of the head of Moraine Fjord, on the north-east coast of South Georgia. It enters the fjord at the south of the Thatcher Peninsula.
The glacier was charted by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Otto Nordenskiöld, who named it for Axel Hamberg, a Swedish geographer, mineralogist and Arctic explorer.[1]
Landsat ETM+ satellite imagery in 2002 showed that the foot of the glaicer had undergone considerable retreat resulting in the appearance of a fjord at right angles to Moraine Fjord.
Location
- Location: 54°21’13"S, 36°34’23"W
References
- ↑ Hamberg Glacier: Geographical Names
- Gazetteer and Map of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: Hamberg Glacier
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