Schindewolf Glacier
| Schindewolf Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Bowers Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 28 ′ S , 164 ° 29 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Lillie Glacier | |
The Schindewolf Glacier is a glacier in the Bowers Mountains of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It lies with a north-easterly direction of flow between the Copperstain Ridge with Mount Freed in the west and the ridge around Mount Radspinner in the east. Its head end is at the lower section of the McCann Glacier . Together with the Champness Glacier , it flows into the Lillie Glacier on Griffith Ridge .
Scientists from the German expedition GANOVEX III (1982–1983) named him. It is named after the German geologist and paleontologist Otto Heinrich Schindewolf (1896–1971).
See also
Web links
- Schindewolf Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2 McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1369 (English).
- ↑ Franz Tessensohn, Norbert W. Roland: GANOVEX I-IV New geographical names . Geological Yearbook, Volume 66, 1987, pp. 303-321.