Norsk-Polarinstitutt-Glacier
| Norsk-Polarinstitutt-Glacier | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Belgica Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 34 ′ S , 31 ° 16 ′ E | |
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The Norsk-Polarinstitutt-Glacier ( French Glacier Norsk Polarinstitutt ) is a glacier in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It flows in the Belgica Mountains in a south-westerly direction between Mount Perov and Mount Limburg Stirum .
Participants in the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in 1957/58 under Gaston de Gerlache de Gomery (1919-2006) discovered him. It is named after the Norsk Polar Institute , which was then based in Oslo , Norway , and has been in Tromsø since 1998 .
Web links
- Norsk Polarinstitutt Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Norsk Polarinstitutt Glacier on geographic.org (English)