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Leighbreen
Sign in to saveLeighbreen is a glacier on Nordaustlandet, Svalbard. It is located near the northeastern coast. The glacier is named after British explorer Benjamin Leigh Smith, who visited the archipelago several times in the 1870s and 1880s.
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- Instance of
- glacier
- Named after
- Benjamin Leigh Smith
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Svalbard
- Continent
- Europe
- Area
- 925
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- inflows
- Austfonna
- outflows
- Arctic Ocean
- located in/on physical feature
- Nordaustlandet
- native label
- Leighbreen
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Leighbreen is a glacier on Nordaustlandet, Svalbard. It is located near the northeastern coast. The glacier is named after British explorer Benjamin Leigh Smith, who visited the archipelago several times in the 1870s and 1880s.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Leighbreen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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