Harker Glacier
Harker Glacier is a tidewater glacier on South Georgia, flowing down into Moraine Fjord on the eastern side of Cumberland Bay, south of the Thatcher Peninsula on which stands the island's min settlement, Grytviken, in the middle of the island's north-east coast.
The valley in which Harker Glacier is located drains from south to north out of the Allardyce Range,
Harker Glacier is a tidewater glacier that contributes icebergs to the bay. The glacier has not changed significantly since the 1970s, but is further advanced than when it was photographed by Frank Hurley in 1914.
This glacier was first mapped by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901-1904), and named De Geer Glacier, after Gerard De Geer (1858-1943), a Swedish geologist who specialized in geomorphology and geochronology. It was remapped in 1912 by David Ferguson, and renamed for Alfred Harker (1859-1939), a British geologist who specialised in petrology and petrography, and who was a Reader in Petrology at the University of Cambridge.[1]
Location
- Location: 54°22’18"S, 36°32’25"W
Outside links
- Photo of Harker Glacier, moraine visible.
References
- ↑ Harker Glacier: Geographical Names
- Gazetteer and Map of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: Harker Glacier
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