Klebelsberg Glacier
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Klebelsberg Glacier is a glacier
Glacier
A glacier is a large persistent body of ice that forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. At least 0.1 km² in area and 50 m thick, but often much larger, a glacier slowly deforms and flows due to stresses induced by its weight...

, 7 nautical miles (13 km) long and 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) wide, situated at the south side of Finsterwalder Glacier
Finsterwalder Glacier
Finsterwalder Glacier is a glacier, 2 miles wide and 10 miles long, flowing southwest from the central plateau of Graham Land toward the head of Lallemand Fjord. Its mouth lies between the mouths of Haefeli and Klebelsberg Glaciers, the three glaciers merging with Sharp Glacier where the latter...

 and flowing northwest from the central plateau of Graham Land
Graham Land
Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...

 toward the head of Lallemand Fjord
Lallemand Fjord
The Lallemand Fjord is a fjord located east of Arrowsmith Peninsula and west of Pernik Peninsula on Loubet Coast on the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula...

. With Finsterwalder and Haefeli Glaciers, its mouth merges with Sharp Glacier
Sharp Glacier
Sharp Glacier is a glacier flowing north to the head of Lallemand Fjord, close east of the Boyle Mountains, in Graham Land. Mapped by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from surveys and air photos, 1948-59. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Robert P. Sharp, American...

 where the latter enters the fjord. First surveyed from the plateau in 1946-47 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), and named by them for Raimund von Klebelsberg, Austrian glaciologist.
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