Bertrab glacier
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| location | South Georgia | |
| Coordinates | 54 ° 38 ′ S , 35 ° 59 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Gold Harbor | |
The Bertrab Glacier is a glacier at the eastern end of South Georgia . It is at the head of the Gold Harbor .
Participants in the Second German Antarctic Expedition (1911–1912) mapped it. Expedition leader Wilhelm Filchner named the glacier after Lieutenant General Hermann Karl Josef Wilhelm von Bertrab (1857-1940), the head of the Prussian land survey and one of the chairmen of the "German Antarctic Expedition" association, which was founded for the acquisition of sponsorship funds and logistical issues for the research trip was.
Web links
- Bertrab Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bertrab Glacier on geographic.org (English)