Schweitzer Glacier is a glacier

Glacier

A glacier is a large persistent body of ice that forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. At least 0.1 km² in area and 50 m thick, but often much larger, a glacier slowly deforms and flows due to stresses induced by its weight...

 which drains west along the north side of Littlewood Nunataks

Littlewood Nunataks

Littlewood Nunataks is a group of four lichen-covered nunataks, rising to about 250 m between Schweitzer and Lerchenfeld Glaciers, Luitpold Coast. The nunataks are brick red in color. They were discovered and first roughly charted by the German Antarctic Expedition, 1911–12, under Wilhelm...

 into Vahsel Bay

Vahsel Bay

Vahsel Bay is a bay about 7 miles wide in the western part of the Luitpold Coast, Antarctica.This bay receives the flow of the Schweitzer Glacier and Lerchenfeld Glacier. It was discovered by the German Antarctic Expedition of 1911–1912, led by Wilhelm Filchner...

. The Lerchenfeld Glacier

Lerchenfeld Glacier

Lerchenfeld Glacier is a glacier flowing in a west-northwesterly direction between Bertrab Nunatak and Littlewood Nunataks. It coalesces with the southern flank of Schweitzer Glacier before the combined flow discharges into the head of Vahsel Bay...

, trending west-northwestward, coalesces with the lower portion of this glacier. Discovered by the German Antarctic Expedition, 1911-12, under Wilhelm Filchner

Wilhelm Filchner

Wilhelm Filchner was a German explorer.At the age of 21, he participated in his first expedition, which led him to Russia. Two years later, he travelled alone and on horseback through the Pamir Mountains, from Osh to Murgabh to the upper Wakhan to Tashkurgan and back...

. He named it for Major Schweitzer, first president of the German Antarctic Expedition Society.