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Quensel Glacier
Map showing the location of Quensel Glacier
Map showing the location of Quensel Glacier
Location in South Georgia Island
Location South Georgia
Coordinates 54°46′S 35°50′W / 54.767°S 35.833°W / -54.767; -35.833
Thickness unknown
Terminus Cooper Bay
Status unknown

Quensel Glacier (54°46′S 35°50′W / 54.767°S 35.833°W / -54.767; -35.833) is a small glacier flowing southeast into Cooper Bay at the east tip of South Georgia. It was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Percy D. Quensel, Swedish geologist of Uppsala University, who visited South Georgia with Carl Skottsberg in 1909.

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