Oberstbreen
| Oberstbreen | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sør Rondane | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 3 ′ S , 27 ° 4 ′ E | |
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The Oberstbreen is a glacier in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . In the Sør Rondane mountains, it drains the western flank of Balchenfjella .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named it, mapped it in 1946 using aerial photographs of the US Operation Highjump (1946–1947). The name was based on that of the Balchenfjella and reminds of the officer rank that the Norwegian polar explorer Bernt Balchen held in the United States Air Force during the Second World War .
Web links
- Colonel Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Colonel Glacier on geographic.org