Posadowsky Glacier
Following is a list of glaciers of Bouvet Island in Antarctica. This list may not reflect recently named glaciers in Bouvet Island.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Glacier with an elevation of 545 metres
- Description: glacier in Antarctica
- Also known as: “Posadowsky Glacier (Bouvet Island)” and “Posadowskys Bre”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Olavtoppen and Horntvedt Glacier.
Olavtoppen
Peak
Olavtoppen, occasionally anglicised as Olav Peak, is the highest point of Bouvet Island, a volcanic island and dependency of Norway, and the remotest island on Earth.
Horntvedt Glacier
Glacier
Following is a list of glaciers of Bouvet Island in Antarctica. This list may not reflect recently named glaciers in Bouvet Island.
Mosbytoppane
Peak
Mosbytoppane, are two crags to the southwest of the caldera of the island of Bouvetøya. The tallest is a snow-covered peak 670 meters above mean sea level and 1.3 kilometers northeast of Norvegiaodden.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cape Circoncision and Cape Valdivia.
Cape Circoncision
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Cape Circoncision is a peninsula on the north-western edge of subantarctic Bouvet Island. The small peninsula was sighted by the French naval exploration that was led by Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier on 1 January 1739, the Feast of the Circumcision day—thus the name.
Cape Valdivia
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cape Valdivia is the northernmost point on Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic Ocean. The subantarctic Bouvet Island is administered by Norway. Cape Valdivia lies in the centre of the island's highest point.
Posadowsky Glacier
- Category: landform
- Location: Bouvet Island
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-54.40262° or 54° 24′ 9″ southLongitude
3.32478° or 3° 19′ 29″ eastElevation
545 metres (1,788 feet)Open location code
3FQ5H8WF+XWOpenStreetMap ID
way 998250542OpenStreetMap feature
natural=glacier
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Satellite Map
Discover Posadowsky Glacier from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Posadowsky Glacier” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Posadowsky glaziarra”
- Cebuano: “Posadowsky Glacier”
- Chinese: “波薩多夫斯基冰川”
- German: “Posadowsky-Gletscher”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Posadowskybreen”
- Spanish: “Glaciar Posadowsky”
- Swedish: “Posadowsky Glacier”
- Swedish: “Posadowskybreen”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Posadowsky Glacier”. Photo: Fguerraz, CC BY-SA 3.0.