Salisbury Plain, South Georgia
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Grace Glacier
Grace Glacier is a glacier which flows north into Ample Bay at the Bay of Isles, South Georgia, near Salisbury Plain. Charted in 1912-13 by Robert Cushman Murphy, American naturalist aboard the brig Daisy, who named it for his wife, Grace Barstow Murphy....
and Lucas
Lucas Glacier
Lucas Glacier is a glacier flowing north into the Bay of Isles, South Georgia, close west of Luck Point. Charted in 1912-13 by Robert Cushman Murphy, American naturalist aboard the brig Daisy, who named it for Frederic Augustus Lucas, Director of the American Museum of Natural History at that time....
glacier
Glacier
A glacier is a large persistent body of ice that forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. At least 0.1 km² in area and 50 m thick, but often much larger, a glacier slowly deforms and flows due to stresses induced by its weight...
s on the north coast of South Georgia, best known as the breeding site of over 200,000 king penguin
King Penguin
The King Penguin is the second largest species of penguin at about , second only to the Emperor Penguin. There are two subspecies—A. p. patagonicus and A. p...
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The name appears to be have been first used on a 1931 British Admiralty chart.