Price Glacier
Price Glacier is a glacier 3.5 miles long, flowing southwest to Cheapman Bay on the south side of South Georgia. It was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey in the period 1951–57, and named for a member of the survey, Thomas Price, in 1955-56…Places of Interest
Highlights include McNish Island and McCarthy Island.
McNish Island
Islet
McNish Island is the larger of two islands lying at the east side of Cheapman Bay on the south side of South Georgia. It was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey in the period 1951–57, and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Harry McNish, carpenter on Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917.
McCarthy Island
Island
McCarthy Island is an island, 1 nautical mile long, lying in the entrance to King Haakon Bay on the south side of South Georgia. It was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey in the period 1951–57, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Timothy McCarthy, a seaman on the Endurance during the British expedition under Ernest Shackleton, 1914–16. McCarthy Island is situated 3½ km southeast of Price Glacier.
Price Glacier
- Type: Glacier
- Description: glacier in Antarctica
- Category: landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Price Glacier” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Price Glacier”
- Chinese: “普賴斯冰川”
- German: “Price-Gletscher”
- Swedish: “Price Glacier”
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