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Waltershausen Glacier is a major Greenland glacier on the eastern side of the ice sheet, ending at the head of Nordfjord within the vast Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord system in East Greenland. Named by Carl Koldewey’s Second German North Polar Expedition of 1869–70 for geologist Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen, it was first surveyed as part of early exploration of the fjord. The glacier flows from the northwest between Strindberg Land, Ole Rømer Land, Bartholin Land, and Hudson Land, with features including the Waltershausen Nunatak, Jakob Kjøde Bjerg, and the nearby Adolf Hoel Glacier. Its ice front, about 11 kilometers wide, makes it especially notable.
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