Kraus glacier
| Kraus glacier | ||
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| location | Anvers Island ( Palmer Archipelago , West Antarctica ) | |
| length | 3 km | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ S , 63 ° 17 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Fournier Bay | |
The Kraus Glacier is a 3 km long glacier on Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows from Mount Français in a northerly direction to Fournier Bay .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2016. It was named after the German-Austrian geodesist Karl Kraus (1939–2006), head of the photogrammetry institute at the Vienna University of Technology from 1974 to 2006.
Web links
- Kraus Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)