Suess Glacier
| Suess Glacier | ||
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 Suess Gl in the western area of the topographic map sheet |
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Altitude range | 1800 m - | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 38 ′ S , 162 ° 40 ′ E | |
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The Suessgletscher is a small glacier in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It branches off at about 1800 m from the Newall Glacier, which runs north, in a southerly direction and flows parallel to the Canada and Lacroix Glaciers into the Taylor Valley , where it borders Lake Chad to the west. The Hoaresee can be found even further to the east . The 1882 m high Matterhorn and the Mummy Pond are located between the Suess and Lacroix glaciers .
Participants of the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott mapped it. They named it after the Austrian geologist Eduard Suess (1831-1914), to whom the discovery of Gondwana can be traced back.