Haugebreen
| Haugebreen | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Heimefrontfjella | |
| length | 14 km | |
| Coordinates | 74 ° 28 ′ S , 9 ° 51 ′ W | |
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The Haugebreen is a 14 km long glacier in the Heimefrontfjella the East Antarctic Queen Maud Lands . It flows between the Kottas Mountains and the XU-Fjella .
Scientists at the Norwegian Polar Institute named it in 1969. It is named after the Norwegian lawyer Jens Christian Hauge (1915-2006), resistance fighter against the German occupation of Norway in World War II , who in 1945 at the age of 30 became Norway's youngest defense minister.
Web links
- Haugebreen in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
- Haugebreen in the directory of the Norwegian Polar Institute