Mefjellbreen
| Mefjellbreen | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sør Rondane | |
| length | 8 kilometers | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ S , 25 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| drainage | Gjelbreen | |
The Mefjellbreen (Norwegian for Mittelberggletscher ) is an 8 km long glacier in Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica . In the mountains of Sør Rondane it flows in a north-westerly direction between Menipa and Mefjell to Gjelbreen .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named it, mapped it in 1957 using aerial photographs of the US Operation Highjump (1946–1947).
Web links
- Mefjell Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mefjell Glacier on geographic.org (English)