Kvitskarvbreen ("the white mountain glacier") is a glacier in
Nathorst Land
Nathorst Land is the land area between Van Keulenfjorden and Van Mijenfjorden on Spitsbergen, Svalbard.
The area is named after Alfred Gabriel Nathorst
Alfred Gabriel Nathorst (7 November 1850 – 20 January 1921) was a Swedish Arctic exp ...
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 N ...
,
Svalbard. It has a length of about 8.5 kilometers, and extend northwestwards from the mountain of
Kvitskarvet to the valley of
Bromelldalen Bromelldalen is a valley in Nathorst Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It has a length of about eight kilometers, and is located between the mountains of Sven Nilssonfjellet and Bassøefjellet on the eastern side, and Hisingerfjellet to the west, at ...
. The glaciers of
Lundbreen Lundbreen is a glacier in Nathorst Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It has a length of about four kilometers, extending from Juvtinden to Kvitskarvbreen, beside the mountain of Langlifjellet Langlifjellet ("The long hillside mountain") is a mountain ...
,
Juvbreen and
Zimmerbreen are all tributaries to Kvitskarvbreen.
References
Glaciers of Spitsbergen
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