Schweitzer Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Schweitzer Glacier (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Glacier
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
flowing W into Lerchenfeld Glacier (q.v.), Vahsel Bay, Luitpold Coast, was roughly mapped in 77°48'S 34°40'W by GAE, 1911-12, in January 1912, and named Schweitzer Gletscher after Major Georg Schweitzer, Chairman, Organizing Committee of GAE, 1911-12, and first President, GAE Society (Przybyllok, 1913, map p.3). Schweitzer Glacier (USAAF chart [LR-74], 1942; [in 77°50'S 34°00'W] AGS map, 1962b; [co-ordinates corrected] USBGN, 1969, p.173; BA chart 3176, 15.i.1971; APC, 1982, p.3). Lednik Shveytsera (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). Glaciar Schweitzer (Argentina. IGM map, 1966). The glacier was delineated from US LANDSAT imagery of 27 January 1973.
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