Haefeli glacier
| Haefeli glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| length | 10 km | |
| width | Max. 3 km | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 16 '30 " S , 66 ° 20' 5" W | |
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| drainage | Lallemand Fjord | |
The Haefeli Glacier is a 10 km long and 3 km wide glacier on the Loubet coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows in a south-south-west direction to the Lallemand Fjord , into which it joins the Finsterwalder-s , the Sharp and the Klebelsberg glaciers .
It was first measured between 1946 and 1947 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . It is named after the Swiss glaciologist Robert Haefeli (1898–1978).
Web links
- Haefeli Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Haefeli Glacier on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ M. de Quervain: Robert Haefeli. Obituary on the homepage of the Alfred Wegener Institute (accessed on January 3, 2016).