Brown Glacier
Brown Glacier is a glacier just south of Round Hill on the east side of Heard Island in the southern Indian Ocean. Its terminus is at Brown Lagoon. To the northwest of Brown Glacier is Compton Glacier, whose terminus is located at Compton Lagoon, between Gilchrist Beach and Fairchild Beach.Places of Interest
Highlights include Heard Island and Round Hill.
Heard Island
Island
Photo: Tristannew, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands is an Australian external territory comprising a volcanic group of mostly barren Antarctic islands, about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica.
Round Hill
Peak
Round Hill is an ice-free, rounded hill rising southward of Fairchild Beach and between Compton Glacier and Brown Glacier, on the northeast side of Heard Island.
Scarlet Hill
Peak
Scarlet Hill is an ice-free, rounded hill, 410 m, overlooking Skua Beach on the east side of Heard Island. This feature appears to have been roughly charted on an 1874 chart by a British expedition under Nares in the Challenger.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cape Lockyer and Cape Bidlingmaier.
Cape Lockyer
Locality
Cape Lockyer is a steep rock headland 1.5 nautical miles northeast of Lambeth Bluff on the southeast side of Heard Island. It was surveyed in 1948 by Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions and named by them for Lieutenant H.C.J. Cape Lockyer is situated 9 km south of Brown Glacier.
Cape Bidlingmaier
Locality
Cape Bidlingmaier is a rocky cape at the east side of the entrance to Mechanics Bay, on the north side of Heard Island in the southern Indian Ocean. The feature appears to have been known to American sealers as Morgan's Point, as shown by Captain H.C. Cape Bidlingmaier is situated 10 km northwest of Brown Glacier.
Brown Glacier
- Type: Glacier with an elevation of 215 metres
- Description: glacier in Antarctica
- Category: landform
- Location: Heard Island and McDonald Islands
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-53.08669° or 53° 5′ 12″ southLongitude
73.62326° or 73° 37′ 24″ eastElevation
215 metres (705 feet)Open location code
3JRMWJ7F+88OpenStreetMap ID
way 272332911OpenStreetMap feature
natural=glacier
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Swedish—“Brown Glacier” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “ব্রাউন হিমবাহ”
- Chinese: “布朗冰川”
- German: “Brown-Gletscher”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brownbreen”
- Swedish: “Brown Glacier”
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