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Tyndall Glacier or Geike Glacier is one of the largest glaciers in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field. It is located in the Torres del Paine National Park, Chile. The glacier has its main calving front in
Geikie Lake Geikie is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Archibald Geikie (1835–1924), Scottish geologist and writer *Georgina Geikie (born 1984), British sport shooter *James Geikie (1839–1915), Scottish geologist *John Cunningham Geikie ...
and like its neighbor, Grey Glacier, it has been significantly retreating for the last years. The glacier is named after the Irish glaciologist
John Tyndall John Tyndall FRS (; 2 August 1820 – 4 December 1893) was a prominent 19th-century Irish physicist. His scientific fame arose in the 1850s from his study of diamagnetism. Later he made discoveries in the realms of infrared radiation and the p ...
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Tyndall Glacier
at the NASA Earth Observatory Glaciers of Magallanes Region Torres del Paine National Park {{MagellanAntarctic-geo-stub