Challenger Glacier
Challenger Glacier is a tidewater glacier on the north side of Heard Island in the southern Indian Ocean. Located 1 nautical mile east of Baudissin Glacier, Challenger Glacier is 0.8 nautical miles wide and flows into the eastern side of Corinthian Bay, close west to Saddle Point.- Glacier with an elevation of around 280 metres (910 feet)
- …is also known as “Baudissin Glacier”
- Description: glacier in Antarctica
Places of Interest
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Little Matterhorn
Peak
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Baudissin Glacier
Glacier
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Glacier
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Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saddle Point and Cape Bidlingmaier.
Saddle Point
Locality
Saddle Point is a rocky point separating…
Cape Bidlingmaier
Locality
Cape Bidlingmaier is a rocky cape at the east side…
Corinth Head
Locality
Corinth Head is a rocky headland 0.5 nautical miles…
Challenger Glacier
- Category: landform
- Location: Heard Island and McDonald Islands
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Latitude
-53.05478° or 53° 3′ 17″ south
Longitude
73.48642° or 73° 29′ 11″ east
Open location code
3JRMWFWP+3H
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural = glacier
GeoNames ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Challenger Glacier” goes by many names.
Challenger GlacierCebuano
挑戰者冰川Chinese
ChallengerbreenNorwegian
ChallengerbreenNorwegian Bokmål
ChallengerbreenNorwegian Nynorsk
Challenger GlacierSwedish
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