Heibreen
| Heibreen | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sverdrupfjella | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 29 ′ S , 0 ° 35 ′ E | |
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The Heibreen is a glacier in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . It flows in a north-westerly direction between the Hamrane and Robinheia mountain ranges in Sverdrupfjella .
The first aerial photographs were taken during the German Antarctic Expedition (1938–1939). Norwegian cartographers mapped the glacier using aerial photographs taken by the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (NBSAE, 1949–1952) and the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960). Its descriptive Norwegian name means something like "highland glacier".
Web links
- Hei Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hei Glacier on geographic.org (English)