Engelbrecht Glacier
Engelbrecht Glacier is a glacier in Bouvet Island and has an elevation of 211 metres. Engelbrecht Glacier is situated nearby to the locality Cape Norvegia, as well as near Nyroysa.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mosbytoppane and Lykketoppen.
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.
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.
Benn Skerries
Islet
Benn Skerries are a small group of rocks which extend up to 0.25 nautical miles westward from Norvegia Point on the island of Bouvetøya. They were charted and named in December 1927 by a Norwegian expedition in the Norvegia under Captain Harald Horntvedt.
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.
Engelbrecht Glacier
- Type: Glacier with an elevation of 211 metres
- Category: landform
- Location: Bouvet Island
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Latitude
-54.4325° or 54° 25′ 57″ southLongitude
3.30706° or 3° 18′ 25″ eastElevation
211 metres (692 feet)Open location code
3FQ5H894+2ROpenStreetMap ID
way 998250543OpenStreetMap feature
natural=glacier
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Engelbrecht Glacier” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Engelbrecht Glacier”
- Cebuano: “Engelbrechtbreen”
- German: “Engelbrecht-Gletscher”
- German: “Engelbrechtbreen”
- Swedish: “Engelbrecht Glacier”
- Swedish: “Engelbrechtbreen”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Cape Norvegia and Nyroysa.
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