Haffner Glacier
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Haffner Glacier is a small glacier
discharging into Berg Bay
along the north coast of Victoria Land
. First charted by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1898–1900, under C.E. Borchgrevink, who named it for Colonel Haffner, Director of the Government Survey of Norway
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Glacier
A glacier is a large persistent body of ice that forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. At least 0.1 km² in area and 50 m thick, but often much larger, a glacier slowly deforms and flows due to stresses induced by its weight...
discharging into Berg Bay
Berg Bay
Berg Bay is a small bay between Birthday Point and Islands Point in the west side of Robertson Bay, northern Victoria Land. It was charted and named in 1911 by the Northern Party led by Victor Campbell of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, because icebergs appear to gravitate there....
along the north coast of Victoria Land
Victoria Land
Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and on the west by Oates Land and Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria...
. First charted by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1898–1900, under C.E. Borchgrevink, who named it for Colonel Haffner, Director of the Government Survey of Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
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