COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

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.

A glacier which drains west along the north side of Littlewood Nunataks into Vahsel Bay. The Lerchenfeld Glacier, trending west-northwestward, coalesces with the lower portion of this glacier. Discovered by the German Antarctic Expedition, 1911-12, under Wilhelm Filchner. He named it for Major Schweitzer, first president of the German Antarctic Expedition Society.

The glacier drains parts of Prinzregent-Luitpold-Land W of Littlewood Nunataks and is confluencing with Lerchenfeldgletscher and Penckgletscher, forming a glacier tongue in Herzog-Ernst-Bucht, Prinzregent-Luitpold-Land, Coats Land, Weddell Sea. Discovered during Deutsche Antarktische Expedition 1911/12 under Wilhelm Filchner.