Salbreen
| Salbreen | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sør Rondane | |
| length | 11 km | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 3 ′ S , 25 ° 31 ′ E | |
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The Salbreen (Norwegian for saddle glacier ) is an 11 km long glacier in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . In the Sør Rondane Mountains, it flows north between the Salen and Bergersenfjella Mountains .
Norwegian cartographers, who named it after the name of the mountain Salen (Norwegian for saddle ), mapped it in 1957 using aerial photographs taken during the US Operation Highjump (1946–1947).
Web links
- Sal Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sal Glacier on geographic.org (English)