Keilhau glacier
Keilhau glacier | ||
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location | South Georgia | |
Mountains | Cabbage Plateau | |
length | 8 kilometers | |
Coordinates | 54 ° 15 ′ 40 ″ S , 37 ° 2 ′ 57 ″ W | |
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drainage | Jossac Bight |
The Keilhau Glacier is an 8 km long glacier that flows on the south coast of South Georgia in a west to south-west direction from the Kohl Plateau to Jossac Bight .
The Norwegian geologist Olaf Holtedahl mapped it during his visit to South Georgia between 1927 and 1928. He named it after his compatriot Baltazar Mathias Keilhau (1797-1858), geologist and professor of mineralogy at Christiania University .
Web links
- Keilhau Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Keilhau Glacier on geographic.org (English)