Breidsvellet
| Breidsvellet | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Borg massif | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 39 ′ S , 3 ° 10 ′ W | |
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Breidsvellet (Norwegian for wide ice sheet ) is a steep glacier slope in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . It is located in the Borg massif on the east side of Jøkulskarvet .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named the glacier slope descriptively, mapped it on the basis of aerial photographs and measurements of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952).
Web links
- Breidsvellet in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Breidsvellet on geographic.org (English)