Traub Glacier
Glacier in Antarctica
62°28′31″S 59°48′00″W / 62.47528°S 59.80000°W / -62.47528; -59.80000![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Livingston-Island-Map-2010.jpg/400px-Livingston-Island-Map-2010.jpg)
Traub Glacier is a glacier on Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica extending 2.5 km in northwest-southeast direction and 4 km in southwest-northeast direction and draining the east slopes of Dryanovo Heights to flow eastwards into Discovery Bay.
The feature was named by the 1947 Chilean Antarctic Expedition after Lieutenant Norberto Traub, a member of the expedition.
Location
The glacier is centred at 62°28′31″S 59°48′00″W / 62.47528°S 59.80000°W / -62.47528; -59.80000 (Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009).
See also
- List of glaciers in the Antarctic
- Glaciology
Maps
- L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
- L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4
References
- SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
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