Tverreggbreen
| Tverreggbreen | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Kirwanveggen | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 27 ′ S , 3 ° 36 ′ W | |
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The Tvereggbreen ( Norwegian for transverse ridge glacier ) is a glacier in Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica . In the Kirwanveggen it flows between the Heksegryta mountain range and the Tverregga ridge .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named it, mapped it on the basis of surveys and aerial photographs of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952) and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960).
Web links
- Tverregg Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tverregg Glacier on geographic.org (English)