Credner Glacier, Alpine glacier on Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Credner Glacier lies on the northwest slope of Kibo, Kilimanjaro's highest peak, between 5,600 and 5,800 metres. It descends from the Northern Ice Field, from which it has been separated since 2012, and covered 23.2 hectares in 2017. Its tongue once reached below 5,000 metres.

Hans Meyer, on his first ascent of Kibo in 1889, found an ice cap filling the caldera with glaciers flowing down from the rim. By his second visit in 1898 the ice inside and outside the caldera was already separated, and Meyer named the northernmost westward-flowing glacier after geologist Hermann Credner. Its tongue then reached below 5,000 m, and it was the northernmost of four glaciers on the northwest slope, alongside the Drygalski and the Great and Little Penck glaciers.

The glacier is named after Hermann Credner, a German geologist. Hans Meyer, who made the first ascent of Kibo in 1889, named the northernmost westward-flowing glacier after him and first charted it under this name in his book Der Kilimanjaro.

This location requires a multi-day mountain climb with specialized equipment to reach. Visitors should allow time for proper acclimatization and assess their fitness realistically.

The ice on the northwest-facing side receives more direct sunlight than other ice formations on Kilimanjaro because of its slope orientation. This causes the glacier to melt more rapidly than comparable ice masses in other positions.