Hayesbreen is a glacier in
Sabine Land
Sabine Land ( ) is a land area on the east coast of Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It is named after explorer General Sir Edward Sabine. Among the glaciers in the area is the Nordmannsfonna Nordmannsfonna is a glacier in Sabine Land at Spitsbergen, ...
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 ...
,
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 is named after American politician and Arctic explorer
Isaac Israel Hayes. The glacier has a length of about eighteen kilometers, and debouches into the bay of
Mohnbukta. Surrounding mountains are
Aagaardfjellet to the north,
Jebensfjellet Jebensfjellet is a mountain in Sabine Land
Sabine Land ( ) is a land area on the east coast of Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It is named after explorer General Sir Edward Sabine. Among the glaciers in the area is the Nordmannsfonna Nordmannsfonna is a ...
to the south, and
Panofskyfjellet where Hayesbreen joins the glacier of
Königsbergbreen.
References
Glaciers of Spitsbergen
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