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Barentsjøkulen
Sign in to saveBarentsjøkulen is a glacier on Barentsøya, Svalbard. The glacier covers an area of about . It is named after the Barents Island, which again is named after Dutch explorer Willem Barentsz. Barents Island is on the Barents Sea.
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- glacier
- Named after
- Barentsøya
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Svalbard
- Continent
- Europe
- Elevation
- 422
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- Barentsøya
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Barentsjøkulen is a glacier on Barentsøya, Svalbard. The glacier covers an area of about . It is named after the Barents Island, which again is named after Dutch explorer Willem Barentsz. Barents Island is on the Barents Sea.
The glacier has the four offshoots Besselsbreen, Willybreen, Freemanbreen and Duckwitzbreen.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Barentsjøkulen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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