Steenstrupbreen 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 ...
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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 ...
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Svalbard. It has a length of about 8.5 kilometers, and is situated northeast of the valley of
Steenstrupdalen. The glacier is named after Danish geologist and Arctic explorer
Knud Johannes Vogelius Steenstrup. The mountain of
Marlowfjellet separates Steenstrupbreen from
Sysselmannbreen.
References
Glaciers of Spitsbergen
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