Hübnerbreen is a glacier at
Barentsøya
Barentsøya, anglicized as Barents Island, is an Arctic island in the Svalbard archipelago of Norway, lying between Edgeøya and Spitsbergen. To the north, in the sound between Barentsøya and Spitsbergen, lies the island of Kükenthaløya. To the ...
,
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 at the eastern part of the island, and is named after mining engineer and Arctic explorer Adolf Hübner.
The mountain of
Buklerimen separates Hübnerbreen from
Freemanbreen
Freemanbreen is a glacier on Barentsøya, Svalbard. It is an offshoot of Barentsjøkulen, reaching down to the sea in the southern direction, into Freeman Strait
Freemansundet is the sound separating Barentsøya, to the north, from Edgeøya, in t ...
. The coastal plain of
Ritterflya, at the east coast of Barentsøya, is formed by deposits from Hübnerbreen and the nearby
Reymondbreen.
References
Barentsøya
Glaciers of Svalbard
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