Quensel Glacier | |
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Location | South Georgia |
Coordinates | 54°46′S 35°50′W / 54.767°S 35.833°W |
Thickness | unknown |
Terminus | Cooper Bay |
Status | unknown |
Quensel Glacier (54°46′S 35°50′W / 54.767°S 35.833°W) is a small glacier flowing southeast into Cooper Bay at the east tip of South Georgia. It was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Percy D. Quensel, Swedish geologist of Uppsala University, who visited South Georgia with Carl Skottsberg in 1909.[1]