- Source: Schimper Glacier
Schimper Glacier (80°18′S 25°5′W) is a glacier in the east part of Herbert Mountains, Shackleton Range, flowing north-northeast into Slessor Glacier.
Exploration
The glacier was photographed from the air by the U.S. Navy, 1967, and surveyed by British Antarctic Survey (BAS), 1968–71. In association with the names of glacial geologists grouped in the area, named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Karl Friedrich Schimper (1803–67), German botanist who in 1835 originated the theory of the Ice Age in Europe to account for the distribution of erratic boulders.
Location
The glacier forms in the south of the Herbert Mountains and flows north to enter the Slessor Glacier between the Högbom Outcrops to the east and the Charlesworth Cliffs to the west.
The glacier flows along a fault line from near Mount Absalom, and divides the mountains into two, with the Bernhardi Heights ridge to the east falling steeply about 400 metres (1,300 ft) to the glacier.
See also
List of glaciers in the Antarctic
Glaciology
References
Sources
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Schimper Glacier
- Shackleton Range
- List of glaciers of Coats Land
- Glacial erratic
- Ice age
- Högbom Outcrops
- Bernhardi Heights
- Herbert Mountains
- Bryophyte
- Quaternary
