Honnørbreen
| Honnørbreen | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 16 ′ S , 39 ° 48 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Lützow-Holm-Bucht | |
The Honnørbreen ( Norwegian ; Japanese ホ ノ ー ル 氷河 Honnør-hyoga ) is a glacier on the Prince Harald Coast of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It flows north of Byvågåsane into the east side of Lützow-Holm-Bucht .
It was named Honnørbryggja ( Norwegian for honorary investor ) during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 , whose participants saw it as a floating glacier tongue . Scientists on a Japanese Antarctic expedition lasting from 1957 to 1962 found that the glacier tongue had broken off in the meantime and applied the name to the rest of the glacier in an adapted form. Scientists from the Norwegian Polar Institute, in turn, translated the Japanese name into Norwegian.
Web links
- Honnor Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Honnør Glacier on geographic.org (English)