Brecher Glacier
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 Satellite image of the Byrd Glacier with the |
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 8 kilometers | |
| Coordinates | 80 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ S , 157 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| drainage | Byrd glacier | |
The Brecher Glacier is an outlanding and 8 km long glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the northern Churchill Mountains, it flows in a northerly direction between the Rundle Peaks and the Mandarich Massif into the Byrd Glacier .
Namesake is the German-born glaciologist Henry H. Brecher (* 1932), who was part of the winter occupation of the Byrd station in 1960 and who returned to the Antarctic several times for further research work until 1995, including in the area of the Byrd Glacier.
Web links
- Brecher Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Brecher Glacier on geographic.org (English)