Beardmore Glacier
The Beardmore Glacier in Antarctica is one of the largest valley glaciers in the world, being 200 km long and having a width of 40 km. It descends about 2,200 m from the Antarctic Plateau to the Ross Ice Shelf and is bordered by the Commonwealth Range of the Queen Maud Mountains on the eastern side and the Queen Alexandra Range of the Central Transantarctic Mountains on the western.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Beardmore Glacier
- Type: Glacier with an elevation of 926 metres
- Description: glacier in Antarctica
- Categories: valley glacier and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-83.87938° or 83° 52′ 46″ southLongitude
170.43945° or 170° 26′ 22″ eastElevation
926 metres (3,038 feet)Open location code
2V8G4CCQ+6QOpenStreetMap ID
node 11370358909OpenStreetMap feature
natural=glacier
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Beardmore Glacier” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر بيردمور الجليدي”
- Azerbaijani: “Birdmor buzlağı”
- Basque: “Beardmore glaziarra”
- Belarusian: “Ледавік Бірдмара”
- Bulgarian: “Бирдмор (ледник)”
- Bulgarian: “Бирдмор”
- Catalan: “Glacera Beardmore”
- Cebuano: “Beardmore Glacier”
- Chinese: “比爾德摩爾冰川”
- Chinese: “比爾德莫爾冰川”
- Czech: “Beardmoreův ledovec”
- Dutch: “Beardmoregletsjer”
- Finnish: “Beardmorejäätikkö”
- Finnish: “Beardmoren jäätikkö”
- French: “Beardmore Glacier”
- French: “glacier Beardmore”
- French: “Glacier Beardmore”
- French: “Glacier de Beardmore”
- Georgian: “ბირდმორის მყინვარი”
- German: “Beardmore-Gletscher”
- Hebrew: “קרחון בירדמור”
- Hungarian: “Beardmore-gleccser”
- Italian: “Beardmore glacier”
- Italian: “Beardmore Glacier”
- Italian: “ghiacciaio Beardmore”
- Italian: “Ghiacciaio Beardmore”
- Italian: “Ghiacciaio di Beardmore”
- Japanese: “ビアドモア氷河”
- Japanese: “ベアードモア氷河”
- Lithuanian: “Birdmoro ledynas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Beardmore Breen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Beardmore Glacier”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Beardmorebreen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Beardmorebreen”
- Norwegian: “Beardmorebreen”
- Persian: “یخچال طبیعی بیردمور”
- Polish: “Lodowiec Beardmore’a”
- Portuguese: “Geleira Beardmore”
- Portuguese: “Glaciar Beardmore”
- Russian: “Бирдмора ледник”
- Russian: “Ледник Бирдмора”
- Slovak: “Beardmorov ľadovec”
- Spanish: “Glaciar Beardmore”
- Swedish: “Beardmore Glacier”
- Turkish: “Beardmore buzulu”
- Turkish: “Beardmore Buzulu”
- Ukrainian: “Льодовик Бірдмора”
- Uzbek: “Birdmor muzligi”
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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 “Beardmore Glacier”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.