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Glacier in Antarctica

Wager Glacier
Location
Location	Alexander Island, Antarctica
Coordinates	69°48′S 69°23′W / 69.800°S 69.383°W / -69.800; -69.383
Thickness	unknown
Terminus	George VI Sound
Status	unknown

Wager Glacier is a small, heavily crevassed glacier on the east coast of Alexander Island, Antarctica. It occupies a trench-like valley and flows east into George VI Sound immediately south of Marr Bluff. The glacier was surveyed in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey and named by them for Lawrence R. Wager, Arctic explorer and professor of geology at Oxford University.

References

v t e Glaciers in the Antarctic
Alphabetic	List of glaciers in the Antarctic: A–H List of glaciers in the Antarctic: I–Z
By territory	Adélie Land Bouvet Island Coats Land Ellsworth Land Enderby Land Graham Land Heard Island and McDonald Islands James Ross Island and Graham Land Kaiser Wilhelm II Land Kemp Land Mac. Robertson Land Marie Byrd Land Oates Land Palmer Archipelago and Graham Land Palmer Land Princess Elizabeth Land Queen Elizabeth Land Queen Mary Land Queen Maud Land Ross Dependency South Georgia South Shetland Islands South Orkney Islands Trinity Peninsula and Graham Land Victoria Land Wilkes Land
Miscellaneous	List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands List of Antarctic ice rises List of Antarctic ice shelves List of Antarctic ice streams List of glaciers List of subantarctic glaciers

v t e Glaciers of Palmer Land

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