Lewald Glacier
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| location | South Georgia | |
| Coordinates | 54 ° 46 ′ S , 35 ° 53 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Wirik Bay | |
The Lewald Glacier is a small glacier on South Georgia . It flows into Wirik Bay 5 km west of Cape Vahsel .
Participants in the Second German Antarctic Expedition (1911–1912) under the direction of Wilhelm Filchner mapped him. Filchner named him after Theodor Lewald (1860-1947), ministerial director in the Reich Office of the Interior , who had campaigned for Filchner's research trip to come about.
Web links
- Lewald Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lewald Glacier on geographic.org (English)