Schimper Glacier
Schimper Glacier is a glacier in the east part of Herbert Mountains, Shackleton Range, flowing north-northeast into Slessor Glacier. Photographed from the air by the U.S. Navy, 1967, and surveyed by British Antarctic Survey, 1968-71. In association with the names of glacial geologists grouped in the area, named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Karl Friedrich Schimper, German botanist who in 1835 originated the theory of the Ice Age in Europe to account for the distribution of erratic boulders.
