Devikbreen is a glacier in
Oscar II Land
Oscar II Land is the land area between Isfjorden (Svalbard), Isfjorden and Kongsfjorden on Spitsbergen, Svalbard. The long glacier Sveabreen divides Oscar II Land from James I Land.
The area is named after Oscar II of Sweden. Older name varian ...
at
Spitsbergen
Spitsbergen (; formerly known as West Spitsbergen; Norwegian language, Norwegian: ''Vest Spitsbergen'' or ''Vestspitsbergen'' , also sometimes spelled Spitzbergen) is the largest and the only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipel ...
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Svalbard
Svalbard ( , ), previously known as Spitsbergen or Spitzbergen, is a Norway, Norwegian archipelago that lies at the convergence of the Arctic Ocean with the Atlantic Ocean. North of continental Europe, mainland Europe, it lies about midway be ...
. It is located between
Devikfjellet and
Krymlefjellet to the north/west, and
Tispa,
Kvelpane and
Klampen to the south/east. Devikbreen merges with several other glaciers, including
Osbornebreen,
Klampebreen, and
Vintervegen, and the merged glacier debouches into
St. Jonsfjorden. The length of the glacier is six kilometers. The glacier is named after physicist
Olaf Devik.
References
Glaciers of Spitsbergen
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