Ramseier Glacier
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 Satellite image of the Byrd Glacier with the |
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| location | Australian Antarctic Territory , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Britannia Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Type | Valley glacier | |
| length | 8 kilometers | |
| Coordinates | 80 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ S , 156 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| drainage | Byrd glacier | |
The Ramseier Glacier is an approximately 8 km long valley glacier in the Britannia Range of the Transantarctic Mountains . It flows southwest of Mount Rummage into the Byrd Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1965 after the Swiss glaciologist René Otto Ramseier (1933-2008), who worked at the McMurdo Station from 1960 to 1961 and at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station from 1961 to 1962 .
Web links
- Ramseier Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ramseier Glacier on geographic.org (English)