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Orwell Glacier () is a small glacier, less than 0.5 nautical miles (0.9 km) long, which descends steeply from the south slopes of
Snow Hills Snow Hills () is a two snow-covered hills, one 240 m, the other 265 m and 0.25 nautical miles (0.5 km) to the west. Located 0.2 nautical miles (0.4 km) west of Cemetery Bay in the east-central part of Signy Island. The lower, eastern hil ...
and terminates in 20 m ice cliffs along the south margin of
Elephant Flats Borge Bay () is a large, irregularly-shaped bay that dominates the east side of Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands of Antarctica. It was charted in 1912 by Norwegian whaling captain Petter Sorlle, and named for Captain Hans Borge of the ''P ...
in the east part of Signy Island, in the
South Orkney Islands The South Orkney Islands are a group of islands in the Southern Ocean, about north-east of the tip of the Antarctic PeninsulaDI personnel in 1927 and named by them for the Norwegian transport throughout the seasons 1925–26 to 1929–30. Resurveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1947.


See also

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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


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Glaciers of the South Orkney Islands {{Antarctica-glacier-stub