Haffner Glacier
| Haffner Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 28 ′ S , 169 ° 24 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Mountain Bay | |
The Haffner Glacier is a small glacier on the Pennell Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . There it flows into Berg Bay .
Participants in the Southern Cross Expedition (1898–1900) led by the Norwegian polar explorer Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink mapped it for the first time. Borchgrevink named the glacier after Johan Fredrik Wilhelm Haffner (1835-1901), director of the Norwegian land surveying office.
Web links
- Haffner Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Haffner Glacier on geographic.org (English)