Lange Glacier

Lange Glacier
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Location	King George Island South Shetland Islands
Coordinates	62°07′00″S 58°30′00″W / 62.11667°S 58.50000°W / -62.11667; -58.50000
Thickness	unknown
Terminus	Admiralty Bay
Status	unknown

Lange Glacier (62°7′S 58°30′W / 62.117°S 58.500°W / -62.117; -58.500Coordinates: 62°7′S 58°30′W / 62.117°S 58.500°W / -62.117; -58.500) is a glacier flowing into the west side of Admiralty Bay close south of Admiralen Peak, King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It was charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1908–10, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 for Alexander Lange (1860–1922), a Norwegian pioneer of modern steam whaling in the South Shetland Islands in 1905–6, and commander of the Admiralen.^[1]

See also

• List of glaciers in the Antarctic
• Glaciology

References

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