Vinje Glacier is a broad
glacier about 20 nautical miles (37 km) long flowing northwest between the
Filchner Mountains
The Filchner Mountains (german: Filchnerberge) are a group of mountains southwest of the Drygalski Mountains, at the western end of the Orvin Mountains of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. They were discovered by the Third German Antarctic Expedit ...
and
Fenriskjeften Mountain
Fenriskjeften Mountain is a large bare rock mountain which in plan resembles a hairpin, forming the southern portion of the Drygalski Mountains in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. It was plotted from air photos by the Third German Antarctic Expediti ...
in
Queen Maud Land. Mapped by Norwegian
cartographers from surveys and air photos by the
Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–60) and named for
T. Vinje, meteorologist with Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–58).
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List of glaciers in the Antarctic
There are many glaciers in the Antarctic. This set of lists does not include ice sheets, ice caps or ice fields, such as the Antarctic ice sheet, but includes glacial features that are defined by their flow, rather than general bodies of ice. Th ...
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Glaciology
References
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Glaciers of Queen Maud Land
Orvin Mountains
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