Ranvikbreen
| Ranvikbreen | ||
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| location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 10 ′ S , 77 ° 40 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Ranvik | |
The Ranvikbreen is a wide glacier on the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . It flows into the southern part of Ranvik , a side bay in the south-eastern part of Prydz Bay .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs from the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . They named it after the name of the bay Ranvik, which was named after the property of the Norwegian whaling entrepreneur Lars Christensen .
Web links
- Ranvik Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ranvik Glacier on geographic.org (English)