Gjelbreen
| Gjelbreen | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sør Rondane | |
| length | 28 km | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 53 ′ S , 24 ° 55 ′ E | |
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The Gjelbreen (Norwegian for canyon glacier ) is a 28 km long glacier in Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica . In the Sør Rondane mountains , it is bordered between the steep cliffs of Lunckeryggen and Mefjell .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named it descriptively, mapped it in 1957 using aerial photographs taken during the US operation Highjump (1946–1947).
Web links
- Gjel Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gjel Glacier on geographic.org (English)