Storbreen
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Storbreen ("The Large Glacier") is a glacier in
Torell Land Torell Land is a land area at the southeast part of Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It is named after Otto Martin Torell. Two glaciers, Hornbreen and Hambergbreen, divide Torell Land from Sørkapp Land. Torell Land is included in the Sør-Spitsbergen ...
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 ...
,
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 has a length of about fifteen kilometers, and debouches towards the bay of Brepollen, the inner part of
Hornsund Hornsund is a fjord on the western side of the southernmost tip of northern Norway's Spitsbergen island. The fjord's mouth faces west to the Greenland Sea, and is wide. The length is , the mean depth is , and the maximal depth is . Hornsund cut ...
.


References

Glaciers of Spitsbergen {{spitsbergen-glacier-stub