
Murray Snowfield
(South Georgia)
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
Location: 54° 8' S 37° 9' 3" W
S of Possession Bay, in its N part together with Purvis Glacier (q.v.) was called John Murray-Gletscher by the German Antarctic Expedition, 1911-12, probably after Sir John Murray (1841-1914), British marine biologist and oceanographer, naturalist in HMS Challenger, 1872-76; traversed in May 1916 by Shackleton and his party of the British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, who sighted Possession Bay from here on the way from King Haakon Bay to Stromness; following the South Georgia Survey, 1955-56, named Murray Snowfield.