Brunonia Glacier

Brunonia Glacier (54°3′S 37°29′W / 54.050°S 37.483°W / -54.050; -37.483Coordinates: 54°3′S 37°29′W / 54.050°S 37.483°W / -54.050; -37.483) is a glacier which flows east to the head of Sunset Fjord in the Bay of Isles, South Georgia. It was charted in 1912–13 by American ornithologist and naturalist Robert Cushman Murphy, who visited South Georgia aboard the sealing brig Daisy of New Bedford, Massachusetts under Captain Benjamin D. Cleveland. Murphy named the glacier for his alma mater, Brown University, "brunonia" being a Latinized form of its name.

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Erosional	Arête Cirque Cirque stairway Crag and tail Fjord Glacial horn Glacial lake Glacial striae Hanging valley Ribbon lake Roche moutonnée Tarn Tunnel valley U-valley Zungenbecken

Depositional	Drumlin Erratic block Moraine Moraine-dammed lake Pulju moraine Rogen moraine Sevetti moraine Terminal moraine Till plain Veiki moraine

Glacifluvial	Alpentor Diluvium Esker Giant current ripples Kame Kame delta Kettle hole Outwash fan Sandur Urstromtal

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