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.- Glacier with an elevation of around 220 metres (710 feet)
- Description: glacier in Antarctica
Places of Interest
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Round Hill
Peak
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Places in the Area
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Brown Glacier
- Category: landform
- Location: Heard Island and McDonald Islands
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Latitude
-53.08669° or 53° 5′ 12″ south
Longitude
73.62326° or 73° 37′ 24″ east
Open location code
3JRMWJ7F+88
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OpenStreetMap feature
natural = glacier
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From Bengali to Swedish—“Brown Glacier” goes by many names.
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