Authorities have identified the three tourists found dead in the frigid waters of an Alaska lake this week — as officials said falling ice may have ejected them from their canoe.

The bodies of a German couple, Dr. Albercht Paul Thomas Schroder-Schroer, 66, and Maria Elisabeth Schroer, 66, as well as 62-year-old recreational guide Manfred Brida, of Austria, were spotted at about 10 a.m. Tuesday on Valdez Glacier Lake.

Responders eventually recovered the bodies from the water near the toe of the glacier about 120 miles east of Anchorage.

The couple’s bodies were close to each other when found and floating next to an overturned inflatable canoe, said the city of Valdez in a statement. Brida’s body was discovered floating in the middle of the channel a short distance away, with significant head trauma.

All three were wearing life jackets.

Foul play isn’t suspected, city spokeswoman Sheri Price said, although the bodies have been transported to the state medical examiner’s office to officially determine their causes of death.

The Valdez Glacier is calving, or shedding ice, according to the spokeswoman. If ice was released and struck their boat, it could have tossed them overboard, she added.

“It’s dangerous getting near the face of glaciers like that,” Price told the Anchorage Daily News earlier this week. “If they were knocked out of the boat due to a wake or a calving piece of ice, the water is very cold.”

The water temperature off Valdez dipped to as low as 49 degrees Tuesday, federal data shows.

City officials initially referred to the dead as kayakers. A kayaking guide made the initial report to authorities, after spotting the couple’s bodies.

With Post wires