Bucher Glacier

Location of German Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula.

Bucher Glacier (67°39′S 66°50′W / 67.650°S 66.833°W / -67.650; -66.833Coordinates: 67°39′S 66°50′W / 67.650°S 66.833°W / -67.650; -66.833) is a small glacier draining the west slopes of Rudozem Heights and flowing to Bourgeois Fjord just north of Bottrill Head on the 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 Edwin Bucher, Swiss glaciologist and author of many publications on snow and avalanches.

Map

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

References

SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Bucher Glacier" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).

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