Islands
Bouvet Island

Horntvedt Glacier

Following is a list of glaciers of Bouvet Island in Antarctica. This list may not reflect recently named glaciers in .
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  • Type: Glacier with an elevation of 131 metres
  • Description: Glacier on Bouvet Island
  • Also known as: “Horntvedts Bre”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Posadowsky Glacier and Olavtoppen.

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

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

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.

Horntvedt Glacier

Latitude
-54.40633° or 54° 24′ 23″ south
Longitude
3.30139° or 3° 18′ 5″ east
Elevation
131 metres (430 feet)
Open location code
3FQ5H8V2+FH
Open­Street­Map ID
way 998250545
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­glacier
Geo­Names ID
3371116
Wiki­data ID
Q5904586
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Satellite Map

Discover Horntvedt Glacier from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Swedish—“Horntvedt Glacier” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Horntvedt glaziarra”
  • Bavarian: “Horntvedt-Gletscher”
  • Cebuano: “Horntvedt Glacier”
  • Chinese: “霍恩特韋特冰川”
  • French: “Horntvedt Glacier”
  • German: “Horntvedt-Gletscher”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Horntvedtbreen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Horntvedtbreen”
  • Spanish: “Glaciar Horntvedt”
  • Swedish: “Horntvedt Glacier”
  • Swedish: “Horntvedtbreen”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Nyroysa and Cape Norvegia.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Lake Selbadet and Norrisrevet.

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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 “Horntvedt Glacier”. Photo: Fguerraz, CC BY-SA 3.0.