Morris Glacier () is a
glacier flowing north to the head of
Sea Leopard Fjord in the
Bay of Isles,
South Georgia
South Georgia ( es, Isla San Pedro) is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean that is part of the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It lies around east of the Falkland Islands. Stretching in the east†...
. it was charted in 1912–13 by American naturalist
Robert Cushman Murphy, aboard the brig ''Daisy'', who named it for
Edward Lyman Morris, a botanist who was then head of the Department of Natural Science at the
Brooklyn Museum
The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At , the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 1.5 million objects. Located near the Prospect Heights, Crown H ...
.
See also
* List of glaciers in the Antarctic
There are many glaciers in the Antarctic. This set of lists does not include ice sheets, ice caps or ice fields, such as the Antarctic ice sheet, but includes glacial features that are defined by their flow, rather than general bodies of ice. Th ...
* Glaciology
References
Glaciers of South Georgia
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