Mjellbreen
| Mjellbreen | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sør Rondane | |
| length | 15 km | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 7 ′ S , 26 ° 6 ′ E | |
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The Mjellbreen ( Norwegian for powder snow glacier ) is a 15 km long glacier in Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica . In the Sør Rondane Mountains, it flows northeast between the Bergersenfjella and Isachsenfjella mountains .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named it, mapped it in 1957 using aerial photographs of the US Operation Highjump (1946–1947).
Web links
- Mjell Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mjell Glacier on geographic.org (English)