Thunder Glacier (Antarctica)
| Thunder Glacier | ||
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| location | Wiencke Island ( Palmer Archipelago , West Antarctica ) | |
| Type | Kar glacier | |
| length | 6 km | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 50 ′ 27 ″ S , 63 ° 23 ′ 1 ″ W | |
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The Thunder Glacier ( English for Thunder Glacier is) a 6 km long cirque glacier , which is located between the Sierra Dufief and the Wall Range east-west orientation on the Wiencke Island in the West Antarctic Palmer Archipelago stretches.
It was discovered during the Belgica expedition (1897-1899) of the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery . The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey named it after the thundering avalanche that occurred here when it was surveyed in 1944.
Web links
- Thunder Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Thunder Glacier on geographic.org (English)