Wheeler Glacier
Wheeler Glacier is a glacier draining the north flank of Mount Fraser, flowing west-northwest for two miles to the south coast of South Georgia.
The glacier was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey in the period 1951-57 and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for J.F.G. Wheeler, British zoologist and member of the scientific staff of the Discovery Investigations Marine Station at Grytviken on South Georgia, 1925–27 and 1929-30.[1]
Location
- Location: 54°35’57"S, 36°22’28"W
References
- ↑ "Wheeler Glacier, Antarctica". https://geographic.org/geographic_names/antname.php?uni=16500&fid=antgeo_125. Retrieved 24 January 2018.
- Gazetteer and Map of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: Wheeler Glacier
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