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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Glacier with an elevation of 299 metres
- Description: Antarctic glacier
- Also known as: “Doomsday Glacier”
Thwaites Glacier
- Categories: ice stream, ice shelf, ice tongue, and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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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: “Dommedagsgletsjeren”
- Danish: “Thwaites Gletsjer”
- Danish: “Thwaites Isshelf”
- 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 Thwaites”
- Polish: “Lodowiec Thwaitesa”
- Polish: “Lodowiec Zagłady”
- Portuguese: “Glaciar thwaites”
- Portuguese: “Glaciar Thwaites”
- Russian: “ледник Туэйтеса”
- Russian: “ледник Туэйтса”
- Russian: “Ледник Туэйтса”
- Russian: “Туэйтес”
- Russian: “Туэйтс”
- Slovenian: “ledenik Thwaites”
- Spanish: “Glaciar Thwaites”
- Swedish: “Thwaites Glacier”
- Swedish: “Thwaitesglaciären”
- Thai: “ธารน้ำแข็งทเวตส์”
- Ukrainian: “Льодовик Твейтса”
- Vietnamese: “Sông băng Thwaites”
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