Axel Heiberg Glacier

The Axel Heiberg Glacier in Antarctica is a valley glacier, long, descending from the high elevations of the Antarctic Plateau into the Ross Ice Shelf (nearly at sea level) between the Herbert Range and Mount Don Pedro Christophersen in the Queen Maud Mountains. ^[1]

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1. 22 relations: Amundsen Glacier, Antarctic Plateau, Antarctica, Axel Heiberg, Beardmore Glacier, Buenos Aires, Diabase, Glacier, Glaciology, Herbert Range, List of glaciers in the Antarctic, Liv Glacier, Norway, Norwegians, Quarles Range, Queen Maud Mountains, Roald Amundsen, Ross Ice Shelf, Sea level, Shackleton Glacier, South Pole, Strom Glacier.

2. Glaciers of Amundsen Coast
3. Queen Maud Mountains
4. Ross Dependency glacier stubs

Amundsen Glacier

The Amundsen Glacier is a major Antarctic glacier, about 7 to 11 km (4 to 6 nmi) wide and 150 km (80 nmi) long. Axel Heiberg Glacier and Amundsen Glacier are glaciers of Amundsen Coast and Queen Maud Mountains.

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Antarctic Plateau

The Antarctic Plateau, Polar Plateau or King Haakon VII Plateau is a large area of East Antarctica that extends over a diameter of about, and includes the region of the geographic South Pole and the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station.

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Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.

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Axel Heiberg

Axel Heiberg (16 March 1848 – 4 September 1932) was a Norwegian diplomat and financier as well as a patron of the arts and sciences.

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Beardmore Glacier

The Beardmore Glacier in Antarctica is one of the largest valley glaciers in the world, being long and having a width of.

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Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the capital and primate city of Argentina.

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Diabase

Diabase, also called dolerite or microgabbro, is a mafic, holocrystalline, subvolcanic rock equivalent to volcanic basalt or plutonic gabbro.

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Glacier

A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight.

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Glaciology

Glaciology is the scientific study of glaciers, or, more generally, ice and natural phenomena that involve ice.

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Herbert Range

The Herbert Range is a range in the Queen Maud Mountains of Antarctica, extending from the edge of the Antarctic Plateau to the Ross Ice Shelf between the Axel Heiberg Glacier and Strom Glacier. Axel Heiberg Glacier and Herbert Range are Queen Maud Mountains.

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List of glaciers in the Antarctic

There are many glaciers in the Antarctic.

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Liv Glacier

Liv Glacier is a steep valley glacier, long, emerging from the Antarctic Plateau just southeast of Barnum Peak and draining north through the Queen Maud Mountains to enter Ross Ice Shelf between Mayer Crags and Duncan Mountains. Axel Heiberg Glacier and Liv Glacier are glaciers of Amundsen Coast and Queen Maud Mountains.

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Norway

Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.

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Norwegians

Norwegians (Nordmenn) are an ethnic group and nation native to Norway, where they form the vast majority of the population.

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Quarles Range

Quarles Range is a high and rugged range of the Queen Maud Mountains, extending from the polar plateau between Cooper Glacier and Bowman Glacier and terminating near the edge of Ross Ice Shelf. Axel Heiberg Glacier and Quarles Range are Queen Maud Mountains.

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Queen Maud Mountains

The Queen Maud Mountains are a major group of mountains, ranges and subordinate features of the Transantarctic Mountains, lying between the Beardmore and Reedy Glaciers and including the area from the head of the Ross Ice Shelf to the Antarctic Plateau in Antarctica.

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Roald Amundsen

Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (16 July 1872 –) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions.

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Ross Ice Shelf

The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica (an area of roughly and about across: about the size of France).

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Sea level

Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured.

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Shackleton Glacier

Shackleton Glacier is a major Antarctic glacier, over long and from wide, descending from the Antarctic Plateau from the vicinity of Roberts Massif and flowing north through the Queen Maud Mountains to enter the Ross Ice Shelf between Mount Speed and Waldron Spurs. Axel Heiberg Glacier and Shackleton Glacier are Queen Maud Mountains.

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South Pole

The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is the southernmost point on Earth and lies antipodally on the opposite side of Earth from the North Pole, at a distance of 20,004 km (12,430 miles) in all directions.

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Strom Glacier

Strom Glacier is a steep valley glacier flowing northeast from the north side of Mount Fridtjof Nansen to the head of the Ross Ice Shelf, flanked on the northwest by the Duncan Mountains and on the southeast by the Herbert Range. Axel Heiberg Glacier and Strom Glacier are glaciers of Amundsen Coast.

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See also

Glaciers of Amundsen Coast

• Amundsen Glacier
• Axel Heiberg Glacier
• Haas Glacier
• Liv Glacier
• Scott Glacier (Transantarctic Mountains)
• Strom Glacier

Queen Maud Mountains

• Amundsen Glacier
• Axel Heiberg Glacier
• Bush Mountains
• Commonwealth Range
• Dominion Range
• Gothic Mountains
• Haas Glacier
• Hays Mountains
• Herbert Range
• Hughes Range (Antarctica)
• Keltie Glacier
• La Gorce Mountains
• Liv Glacier
• Mount Finley
• Prince Olav Mountains
• Quarles Range
• Queen Maud Mountains
• Reedy Glacier
• Scott Glacier (Transantarctic Mountains)
• Shackleton Glacier
• Supporters Range
• Tapley Mountains

Ross Dependency glacier stubs

• Ashworth Glacier
• Axel Heiberg Glacier
• Bertoglio Glacier
• Carlyon Glacier
• Erebus Glacier
• Haas Glacier
• Hamilton Glacier (Edward VII Peninsula)
• Hood Glacier
• Minerva Glacier
• Prince of Wales Glacier
• Ruecroft Glacier
• Schutt Glacier
• Withrow Glacier

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel_Heiberg_Glacier

Also known as Amundsen Icefall, Butchers Spur, Cooper Glacier, Helland-Hansen Shoulder, Mount Don Pedro Christophersen, Mount Engelstad, Mount Wilhelm Christophersen, Sargent Glacier.

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