Schweitzer Glacier

Schweitzer Glacier
Location of Schweitzer Glacier in Antarctica
Location	Coats Land
Coordinates	77°50′S 34°40′W / 77.833°S 34.667°W / -77.833; -34.667
Thickness	unknown
Terminus	Vahsel Bay
Status	unknown

Schweitzer Glacier (German: Schweitzergeletscher, 77°50′S 34°40′W / 77.833°S 34.667°W / -77.833; -34.667) is a glacier which drains west along the north side of Littlewood Nunataks into Vahsel Bay. The Lerchenfeld Glacier, trending west-northwestward, coalesces with the lower portion of this glacier. Discovered by the German Antarctic Expedition, 1911–12, under Wilhelm Filchner. He named it for Major Schweitzer, first president of the German Antarctic Expedition Society.^[1]

References

^ "Schweitzer Glacier, Antarctica". Geographical Names. Retrieved 25 January 2018.

Types

Anatomy

Processes

Measurements

Volcanic relations

Erosional	Arête Cirque Cirque stairway Crag and tail Finger lake Fjord Glacial horn Glacial lake Glacial striae Hanging valley Nunatak P-form Ribbon lake Roche moutonnée Suncup Tarn Trough lake Trough valley Tunnel valley U-valley Valley step Zungenbecken
Depositional	Drumlin Erratic block Moraine Moraine-dammed lake Pulju moraine Rogen moraine Sevetti moraine Terminal moraine Till plain Veiki moraine
Glaciofluvial	Alpentor Diluvium Esker Giant current ripples Kame Kame delta Kettle hole Outwash fan Sandur Urstromtal

v t e Glaciers in the Antarctic
Alphabetic	List of glaciers in the Antarctic: A–H List of glaciers in the Antarctic: I–Z
By territory	Adélie Land Bouvet Island Coats Land Ellsworth Land Enderby Land Graham Land Heard Island and McDonald Islands James Ross Island and Graham Land Kaiser Wilhelm II Land Kemp Land Mac. Robertson Land Marie Byrd Land Oates Land Palmer Archipelago and Graham Land Palmer Land Princess Elizabeth Land Queen Elizabeth Land Queen Mary Land Queen Maud Land Ross Dependency South Georgia South Shetland Islands South Orkney Islands Trinity Peninsula and Graham Land Victoria Land Wilkes Land
Miscellaneous	List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands List of Antarctic ice rises List of Antarctic ice shelves List of Antarctic ice streams List of glaciers List of subantarctic glaciers

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