Albrecht Penck Glacier

This article deals with the glacier in Viktorialand, the one in Prinzregent-Luitpold-Land (Weddell Sea) see Penck-Glacier .

Albrecht Penck Glacier
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location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Transantarctic Mountains
length	50 km (roughly estimated)
Coordinates	76 ° 40 ′  S , 162 ° 20 ′  E Coordinates: 76 ° 40 ′  S , 162 ° 20 ′  E
drainage	Tripp Bay ( McMurdo Sound )

The Albrecht Penck Glacier is an Antarctic glacier that flows into the Tripp Bay of McMurdo Sound on the coast of Victoria Land between the Fry Glacier and the Evans Piedmont Glacier .

It was first mapped by participants in the Nimrod Expedition (1907-1909) under the direction of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton and named after the German geographer and geologist Albrecht Penck (1858-1945).

See also

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

• Albrecht Penck Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Albrecht Penck Glacier on geographic.org (English)
• Albrecht Penck Glacier. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, pp. 39–40 (English)