Bader Glacier

Location of German Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula.

Bader Glacier (67°37′S 66°45′W / 67.617°S 66.750°W / -67.617; -66.750Coordinates: 67°37′S 66°45′W / 67.617°S 66.750°W / -67.617; -66.750) is a small glacier draining the west slopes of Rudozem Heights and flowing to Bourgeois Fjord just south of Thomson Head on German Peninsula, Fallières Coast on the west side of Graham Land, Antarctica. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1958 for Swiss glaciologist Henri Bader of Rutgers University (U.S.), author of an important thesis on the development of the snowflake and its metamorphoses.

Map

British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 67 66. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1978.

References

This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Bader Glacier" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Tuesday, February 02, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.