Gunnestadbreen
| Gunnestadbreen | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sør Rondane | |
| length | 21 km | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 3 ′ S , 23 ° 50 ′ E | |
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The Gunnestadbreen is a 21 km long glacier in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . In the Sør Rondane Mountains, it flows north between Widerøefjellet and Walnumfjella .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named it, mapped it in 1957 using aerial photographs taken during the US Operation Highjump (1946–1947). It is named after Alf Gunnestad (1904–1987), pilot in the third Antarctic voyage with the ship Thorshavn (1933–1934), financed by the Norwegian whaling entrepreneur Lars Christensen .
Web links
- Gunnestad Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gunnestad Glacier on geographic.org (English)