Traub Glacier

Traub Glacier
Location of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands
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Location	Greenwich Island South Shetland Islands
Coordinates	62°28′31″S 59°48′00″W / 62.47528°S 59.80000°W / -62.47528; -59.80000Coordinates: 62°28′31″S 59°48′00″W / 62.47528°S 59.80000°W / -62.47528; -59.80000
Length	2 nmi (4 km; 2 mi)
Width	1.4 nmi (3 km; 2 mi)
Thickness	unknown
Terminus	Discovery Bay
Status	unknown

Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

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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