Torellbreen

Torellbreen

Torellbreen

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Torellbreen is a glacier in Wedel Jarlsberg Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It forms a front below the mountain Raudfjellet, with a length of about twenty kilometers, and is a merge of the two glaciers Austre Torellbreen and Vestre Torellbreen. The glacier is named after Swedish scientist Otto Martin Torell.[1][2]

Austre Torellbreen seen from west.

References

  1. [1]
    "Torellbreen (Svalbard)". Norwegian Polar Institute. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
  2. [2]
    Arctic Pilot: Sailing directions Svalbard–Jan Mayen. Vol. 7. Stavanger: The Norwegian Hydrographic Service and The Norwegian Polar Institute. 1988. p. 201. ISBN 82-90653-06-9.

77.1817°N 15.0063°E / 77.1817; 15.0063


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