Tyrrell Glacier is a 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...

 flowing north into the head of Moraine Fjord

Moraine Fjord

Moraine Fjord is an inlet 3.5 miles long with a reef extending across its entrance, forming the west head of Cumberland East Bay, South Georgia. Charted by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under Nordenskjold, 1901-04, who so named it because of the large glacial moraine at its entrance....

 where it joins Harker Glacier

Harker Glacier

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 , and named De Geer Glacier, after Gerard De Geer , a Swedish geologist who specialized in geomorphology and geochronology...

, on the north coast of South Georgia. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC), 1982, in association with Harker Glacier, after George Walter Tyrrell

George Walter Tyrrell

George Tyrrell was born in 1883, Hanwell Middlesex, son of George and Annie.George Tyrrell was a lecturer in Geology at Glasgow University from 1913-1948. George worked as an Honorary Research Fellow beginning in 1949....

 (1883–1961), Senior Lecturer

Senior lecturer

Senior lecturer is an academic rank. In the United Kingdom, lecturer is a faculty position at a university or similar institution. Especially in research-intensive universities, lecturers lead research groups and supervise research students, as well as teach...

 in geology, Glasgow University, 1919–48, author of several early papers on the petrology of South Georgia, the South Shetland Islands

South Shetland Islands

The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands, lying about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, with a total area of . By the Antarctic Treaty of 1959, the Islands' sovereignty is neither recognized nor disputed by the signatories and they are free for use by any signatory for...

, and the Palmer Archipelago

Palmer Archipelago

Palmer Archipelago, also known as Antarctic Archipelago, Archipiélago Palmer, Antarktiske Arkipel or Palmer Inseln, is a group of islands off the northwestern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula....

area.