Giæver Glacier
| Giæver Glacier | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Belgica Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 37 ′ S , 31 ° 8 ′ E | |
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The Giæver Glacier ( French Glacier Giaever ) is a glacier in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It flows in the Belgica Mountains in a north-westerly direction between Mount Kerckhove de Denterghem and Mount Lahaye .
Participants in the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in 1957/58 under Gaston de Gerlache de Gomery (1919-2006) discovered him. It is named after the Norwegian polar explorer John Schjelderup Giæver (1901–1970), advisor on the research trip and previously head of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952).
Web links
- Giaever Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Giaever Glacier on geographic.org (English)