Sveabreen
| Sveabreen | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sverdrupfjella and Gjelsvikfjella | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 8 ′ S , 1 ° 53 ′ E | |
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The Sveabreen ( Norwegian for Sweden Glacier ) is a wide glacier in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . It flows between the Sverdrupfjella and the Gjelsvikfjella .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named the glacier, carried out a mapping based on aerial photographs and surveys of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952) and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960).
Web links
- Svea Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Svea Glacier on geographic.org (English)