❄️ Harker Glacier

United Kingdom · Europe · 54.37°S, 36.53°W

Harker Glacier is a tidewater glacier on South Georgia Island in the southern Atlantic Ocean. Harker 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), an English geologist who specialised in petrology and petrography.

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Quick facts

Country	United Kingdom
Continent / region	Europe
Coordinates (approx.)	54.37°S, 36.53°W · view on map

Harker Glacier is located in United Kingdom, in Europe.

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