Christensen Glacier
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- Type: Glacier with an elevation of 156 metres
- Description: glacier in Antarctica
- Also known as: “Christensen Glacier (Bouvet Island)” and “Christensens Bre”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Larsøya and Lykketoppen.
Larsøya
Islet
Larsøya, sometimes anglicized as Lars Island, is a rocky island, less than 0.2 nautical miles long, which lies just off the southwestern extremity of the island of Bouvetøya in the South Atlantic Ocean.
Lykketoppen
Peak
Lykketoppen, occasionally anglicized as Lykke Peak, is a snow-covered, 765-meter tall summit that surmounts the southwest part of Bouvetøya, standing 1 nautical mile east of Norvegia Point.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cape Valdivia and Cape Circoncision.
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.
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.
Christensen Glacier
- Category: landform
- Location: Bouvet Island
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-54.43854° or 54° 26′ 19″ southLongitude
3.34905° or 3° 20′ 57″ eastElevation
156 metres (512 feet)Open location code
3FQ5H86X+HJOpenStreetMap ID
way 998250541OpenStreetMap feature
natural=glacier
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Christensen Glacier” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Christensen glaziarra”
- Cebuano: “Christensen Glacier”
- Chinese: “克里斯滕森冰川”
- German: “Christensen-Gletscher”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Christensenbreen”
- Spanish: “Glaciar Christensen”
- Swedish: “Christensen Glacier (glaciär i Bouvetön)”
- Swedish: “Christensenbreen”
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