Polarforschung Glacier
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Polarforschung Glacier is a heavily crevassed glacier
flowing northward along the west side of Meknattane Nunataks
to Publications Ice Shelf
. Vestknatten Nunatak
lies within the mouth of the glacier. Delineated in 1952 by John H. Roscoe from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump (1946-47), and named by him after fur Polarforschung, Kiel, West Germany
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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...
flowing northward along the west side of Meknattane Nunataks
Meknattane Nunataks
Meknattane Nunataks is a cluster of rock outcrops on the east side of Polarforschung Glacier where it flows to Publications Ice Shelf. The feature consists of a massive ridge with broken outcrops to the south and east. Mapped from air photos by the Lars Christensen Expedition and named Meknattane...
to Publications Ice Shelf
Publications Ice Shelf
Publications Ice Shelf is an ice shelf about 35 nautical miles long on the south shore of Prydz Bay, between Mount Caroline Mikkelsen and Stornes Peninsula. Several glaciers, listed from southwest to northeast, nourish the ice shelf: Polar Times Glacier, Il Polo Glacier, Polarforschung Glacier,...
. Vestknatten Nunatak
Vestknatten Nunatak
Vestknatten Nunatak is an elongated nunatak in the center of Polarforschung Glacier, about 13 nautical miles east-southeast of Mount Caroline Mikkelsen. It was first mapped from air photographs by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936–37, and named Vestknatten, meaning "the west crag." It was...
lies within the mouth of the glacier. Delineated in 1952 by John H. Roscoe from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump (1946-47), and named by him after fur Polarforschung, Kiel, West Germany
West Germany
West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....
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