Brunvoll glacier
| Brunvoll glacier | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 48 ′ S , 66 ° 48 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Cooperation lake | |
The Brunvoll Glacier is a glacier in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It flows north to the Cooperative Lake, which it reaches between the Murray Monolith and Torlyn Mountain in the east, and the Scullin Monolith with Mikkelsen Peak in the west .
The Norwegian whaling historian Bjarne Aagaard (1873-1956) named the glacier after the brothers Arnold (1898-1932) and Sæbjørn Brunvold (1900-1979) [sic!], Two Norwegian whaling captains who operated off this stretch of coast in January 1931.
Web links
- Brunvoll Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Brunvoll Glacier on geographic.org (English)