Bakaninbreen is a glacier in
Heer Land at
Spitsbergen
Spitsbergen (; formerly known as West Spitsbergen; Norwegian: ''Vest Spitsbergen'' or ''Vestspitsbergen'' , also sometimes spelled Spitzbergen) is the largest and the only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipelago in northern Norw ...
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Svalbard
Svalbard ( , ), also known as Spitsbergen, or Spitzbergen, is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. North of mainland Europe, it is about midway between the northern coast of Norway and the North Pole. The islands of the group range ...
. It has a length of about 9.5 kilometers, and merges with the glacier of
Paulabreen. The glacier is named after a member of the
Swedish-Russian Arc-of-Meridian Expedition. The mountain of
Hollertoppen is located between Bakaninbreen and
Ragna-Mariebreen.
References
Glaciers of Spitsbergen
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