Schlatter glacier
| Schlatter glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Asgard Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 41 ′ S , 161 ° 27 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Lake House | |
The Schlatter Glacier is a glacier in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Asgard Range, it flows south to Lake House in the Pearse Valley .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1976 after the Chilean biologist Roberto Pablo Schlatter Vollmann (* 1944), who as part of the United States Antarctic Program was involved in investigating the mass balance of glacier ice in the Antarctic dry valleys between 1969 and 1971 in two Antarctic summer campaigns on Was involved in the ringing program of Adelie penguins and Antarctic skuas .
Web links
- Schlatter Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Schlatter Glacier on geographic.org (English)