Antarctica

Byrd Glacier

The Byrd Glacier is a major glacier in Antarctica, about 161 km long and 24 km wide. It drains an extensive area of the , and flows eastward to discharge into the .
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Byrd Glacier

Latitude
-80° or 80° south
Longitude
160° east
Open location code
2VG22222+22
Open­Street­Map ID
node 11369290962
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­glacier
Geo­Names ID
6630651
Wiki­data ID
Q764134
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Satellite Map

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

From Bulgarian to Turkish—“Byrd Glacier” goes by many names.
  • Bulgarian: “Бърд (ледник)”
  • Bulgarian: “Бърд”
  • Cebuano: “Byrd Glacier”
  • Chinese: “伯德冰川”
  • Esperanto: “Glaĉero Byrd”
  • French: “glacier Byrd”
  • French: “Glacier Byrd”
  • German: “Byrd-Gletscher”
  • Hebrew: “קרחון בירד”
  • Italian: “Ghiacciaio Byrd (Dipendenza di Ross)”
  • Italian: “Ghiacciaio Byrd”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Byrdbreen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Byrdbreen i Ross Dependency”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Byrdbreen”
  • Norwegian: “Byrdbreen”
  • Polish: “Lodowiec Byrda”
  • Portuguese: “Geleira Byrd”
  • Russian: “Бёрд”
  • Slovak: “Byrdov ľadovec”
  • Spanish: “Glaciar Byrd”
  • Swedish: “Byrd Glacier”
  • Turkish: “Byrd Buzulu”

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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 “Byrd Glacier”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.