Lucas Glacier

Lucas Glacier (54°4′S 37°18′W / 54.067°S 37.300°W / -54.067; -37.300Coordinates: 54°4′S 37°18′W / 54.067°S 37.300°W / -54.067; -37.300) is a glacier flowing north into the Bay of Isles, South Georgia, close west of Luck Point. It was charted in 1912–13 by Robert Cushman Murphy, an American naturalist aboard the brig Daisy, who named it for Frederic Augustus Lucas, Director of the American Museum of Natural History at that time.^[1]

References

↑ "Lucas Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2013-07-08.

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South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

Capital: King Edward Point (Grytviken)

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Settlements / Whaling stations	Grytviken Godthul Husvik Leith Harbour Ocean Harbour Prince Olav Harbour Rosita Harbour Stromness Corbeta Uruguay base

South Georgia islands	Annenkov Island Bird Island Black Rock Black Rocks Clerke Rocks Cooper Island Grass Island Grassholm Kupriyanov Islands Pickersgill Islands Prion Island Saddle Island Shag Rocks South Georgia Trinity Island Welcome Islands Willis Islands

South Sandwich islands	Bellingshausen Bristol Candlemas Cook Leskov Montagu Saunders Thule Vindication Visokoi Zavodovski Traversay Islands

Landmarks	Allardyce Range Fortuna Glacier Gold Harbour Larsen Harbour Mount Baume Mount Belinda Mount Cunningham Mount Paget Mount Roots Peggotty Bluff Salisbury Plain Salvesen Range Southern Thule Thatcher Peninsula Grace Glacier Lucas Glacier Bay of Isles Point Abrahamsen Sheep Point Stromness Bay Cumberland Bay Possession Bay Sheer Point Busen Point

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