Kreutz Snowfield

The Kreutz Snowfield (77°17′27″S 161°14′45″E) is an intermontane snowfield of 3 square miles in the Cruzen Range in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Victoria Land. The snowfield is bounded to the south by Forsyth Peak, to the west by the Victoria Upper Névé, to the north by Mount Leland, and to the east by Mount Isaac. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 2005 after Karl J. Kreutz, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Maine, who investigated late Holocene climate variability from Siple Dome ice cores for three field seasons from 1994 to 1997; from Taylor Glacier and Clark Glacier ice cores for two seasons, 2003 to 2005.