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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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The entry is geolocated on the map in glacier, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under topics including Barentsøya and Glaciers of Svalbard.
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- Instance of
- glacier
- Named after
- Barentsøya
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Svalbard
- Continent
- Europe
- Elevation
- 422
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- located in/on physical feature
- 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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2 mapped locations