Axel Heiberg Glacier
The Axel Heiberg Glacier in Antarctica is a valley glacier, 30 nautical miles long, descending from the high elevations of the Antarctic Plateau into the Ross Ice Shelf between the Herbert Range and Mount Don Pedro Christophersen in the Queen Maud Mountains.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Axel Heiberg Glacier
- Type: Glacier with an elevation of 500 metres
- Description: glacier in Antarctica
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Swedish—“Axel Heiberg Glacier” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Աքսել Հեյբերգ սառցադաշտ”
- Azerbaijani: “Aksel Heyberq buzlağı”
- Basque: “Axel Heiberg glaziarra”
- Bulgarian: “Аксел Хайберг (ледник)”
- Bulgarian: “Аксел Хайберг”
- Catalan: “Glacera d’Axel Heiberg”
- Cebuano: “Axel Heibergbreen”
- Chinese: “阿塞爾海伯格冰川”
- Dutch: “Axel Heiberggletsjer”
- Esperanto: “Glaĉero Axel Heiberg”
- Finnish: “Axel Heibergin jäätikkö”
- French: “glacier Axel Heiberg”
- French: “Glacier Axel Heiberg”
- German: “Axel-Heiberg-Gletscher”
- Hebrew: “קרחון אקסל הייברג”
- Italian: “ghiacciaio Axel Heiberg”
- Italian: “Ghiacciaio Axel Heiberg”
- Japanese: “アクセルハイベルグ氷河”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Axel Heiberg-breen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Axel Heibergbreen”
- Norwegian: “Axel Heiberg-breen”
- Persian: “یخچال طبیعی اکسل هایبرگ”
- Polish: “Lodowiec Axela Heiberga”
- Portuguese: “Geleira Axel Heiberg”
- Russian: “Ледник Акселя Хейберга”
- Spanish: “Glaciar Axel Heiberg”
- Swedish: “Axel Heibergbreen”
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