Posadowsky Glacier

Following is a list of glaciers of Bouvet Island in Antarctica. This list may not reflect recently named glaciers in .
Wikipedia
  • 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.

Peak
, occasionally anglicised as Olav Peak, is the highest point of , a volcanic island and dependency of Norway, and the remotest island on Earth.

Glacier
Following is a list of glaciers of Bouvet Island in Antarctica. This list may not reflect recently named glaciers in .

Peak
, are two crags to the southwest of the caldera of the island of . 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.

Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a peninsula on the north-western edge of subantarctic . 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.

Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the northernmost point on in the South Atlantic Ocean. The subantarctic Bouvet Island is administered by . lies in the centre of the island's highest point.

Posadowsky Glacier

Latitude
-54.40262° or 54° 24′ 9″ south
Longitude
3.32478° or 3° 19′ 29″ east
Elevation
545 metres (1,788 feet)
Open location code
3FQ5H8WF+XW
Open­Street­Map ID
way 998250542
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­glacier
Geo­Names ID
3371103
Wiki­data ID
Q7232970
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Satellite Map

Discover Posadowsky Glacier from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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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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