Amundsen Glacier

The Amundsen Glacier is a major glacier, about 7 to 11 km wide and 150 km long. It originates on the where it drains the area to the south and west of , then descends through the to enter the just west of the .
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Latitude
-85.58333° or 85° 35′ south
Longitude
-159° or 159° west
Open location code
2363C282+M2
Geo­Names ID
6631690
Wiki­data ID
Q196495

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Turkish—“Amundsen Glacier” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جليد أموندسن”
  • Arabic: “نهر أموندسن الجليدي”
  • Belarusian: “Ледавік Амундсена”
  • Bulgarian: “Амундсен”
  • Catalan: “Amundsen Glacier”
  • Catalan: “glacera d’Amundsen”
  • Cebuano: “Amundsen Glacier”
  • Chinese: “阿蒙森冰川”
  • Esperanto: “Glaĉero Amundsen”
  • Finnish: “Amundsenin jäätikkö”
  • Finnish: “Paholaisen jäätikkö”
  • Finnish: “Paholaisen tanssisali”
  • Finnish: “Paholaisjäätikkö”
  • Finnish: “Pirun pallokenttä”
  • French: “Glacier Amundsen”
  • German: “Amundsen-Gletscher”
  • Hebrew: “קרחון אמונדסן”
  • Italian: “Ghiacciaio Amundsen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Amundsenbreen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Amundsenbreen”
  • Norwegian: “Amundsenbreen”
  • Polish: “Lodowiec Amundsena”
  • Russian: “Амундсена ледник”
  • Russian: “Ледник Амундсена”
  • Spanish: “Glaciar Amundsen”
  • Swedish: “Amundsen Glacier”
  • Turkish: “Amundsen Buzulu”

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