Thwaites Glacier
Thwaites Glacier is an unusually broad and vast Antarctic glacier located east of Mount Murphy, on the Walgreen Coast of Marie Byrd Land. It was initially sighted by polar researchers in 1940, mapped in 1959–1966 and officially named in 1967, after the late American glaciologist Fredrik T.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.- Type: Glacier with an elevation of 299 metres
- Description: Antarctic glacier
- Also known as: “Dommedagsgletsjeren”, “Doomsday Glacier”, “Glaciar thwaites”, “Lodowiec Thwaites”, “Lodowiec Zagłady”, “Thwaites Isshelf”, “ледник Туэйтеса”, “Туэйтес”, and “Туэйтс”
Thwaites Glacier
- Categories: ice stream, ice shelf, ice tongue, and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-75.5° or 75° 30′ south
Longitude
-106.75° or 106° 45′ west
Elevation
299 metres (981 feet)
Open location code
25PMG722+22
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Vietnamese—“Thwaites Glacier” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Туейтс (ледник)”
- Bulgarian: “Туейтс”
- Catalan: “Glacera de Thwaite”
- Catalan: “Glacera de Thwaites”
- Cebuano: “Thwaites Glacier”
- Chinese: “思韋茨冰川”
- Danish: “Thwaites Gletsjer”
- Dutch: “Thwaitesgletsjer”
- Esperanto: “Glaĉero Thwaites”
- Finnish: “Thwaitesin jäätikkö”
- French: “glacier Thwaites”
- French: “Glacier Thwaites”
- German: “Thwaites-Gletscher”
- Hebrew: “קרחון תוויטס”
- Hindi: “थ़्वेट्स हिमानी”
- Hungarian: “Thwaites-gleccser”
- Indonesian: “Gletser Thwaites”
- Italian: “ghiacciaio Thwaites”
- Italian: “Ghiacciaio Thwaites”
- Japanese: “スウェイツ氷河”
- Korean: “스웨이츠 빙하”
- Latvian: “Tveitsa ledājs”
- Macedonian: “Твејтсов Ледник”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Thwaitesbreen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Thwaitesbreen”
- Norwegian: “Thwaitesbreen”
- Polish: “Lodowiec Thwaitesa”
- Portuguese: “Glaciar Thwaites”
- Russian: “ледник Туэйтса”
- Russian: “Ледник Туэйтса”
- Slovenian: “ledenik Thwaites”
- Spanish: “Glaciar Thwaites”
- Swedish: “Thwaites Glacier”
- Swedish: “Thwaitesglaciären”
- Thai: “ธารน้ำแข็งทเวตส์”
- Ukrainian: “Льодовик Твейтса”
- Vietnamese: “Sông băng Thwaites”
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