Byrdbreen
| Byrdbreen | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sør Rondane | |
| length | 65 km | |
| width | ⌀ 17 km | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 45 ′ S , 26 ° 0 ′ E | |
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The Byrdbreen is a glacier in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . With a length of 65 km and a width of 17 km it is the largest glacier in the Sør Rondane mountains and flows in a north-westerly direction between the mountains Bergersenfjella and Balchenfjella .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs of Operation Highjump (1946–1947). It is named after the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd (1888–1957), head of this research trip. There is a risk of confusion with the Byrd Glacier in the Transantarctic Mountains.
Web links
- Byrdbreen in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Byrdbreen on geographic.org (English)