Byrdbreen
Sign in to saveByrdbreen () is, at about long and wide, the largest glacier flowing northwest between Mount Bergersen and Balchen Mountain in the Sør Rondane Mountains. It was mapped by Norwegian cartographers in 1957 from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47, and named for Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, U.S. Navy, commander of U.S. Navy Operation Highjump.
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Vinony's link graph records 4 inbound references to Byrdbreen, and connects out to Sør Rondane Mountains, Antarctica and geographic coordinate system.
The entry is geolocated on the map in AQ, across 4 mapped points.
Vinony files it under Glaciers of Queen Maud Land and Princess Ragnhild Coast.
Vinony links it to 6 Wikipedia language editions.
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Byrdbreen () is, at about long and wide, the largest glacier flowing northwest between Mount Bergersen and Balchen Mountain in the Sør Rondane Mountains. It was mapped by Norwegian cartographers in 1957 from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47, and named for Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, U.S. Navy, commander of U.S. Navy Operation Highjump.
==See also== Glaciology Hjelmkalven Point Krakken Hill List of glaciers in the Antarctic
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Byrdbreen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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4 mapped locations