Usherbreen is a glacier in
Sabine Land
Sabine Land ( ) is a land area on the east coast of Spitsbergen, Svalbard
Svalbard ( , ), previously known as Spitsbergen or Spitzbergen, is a Norway, Norwegian archipelago that lies at the convergence of the Arctic Ocean with the Atlanti ...
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 9.5 kilometers, and is located between
Kroghfjellet and
Domen. Usherbreen is a tributary glacier to
Nordmannsfonna, and debouches towards
Storfjorden. It is named after Scottish businessman
Thomas Leslie Usher
Thomas may refer to:
People
* List of people with given name Thomas
* Thomas (name)
* Thomas (surname)
* Saint Thomas (disambiguation)
* Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church
* Thomas the Ap ...
.
See also
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Usherfjellet
Usherfjellet is a mountain in Bünsow Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It has a height of 683 m.a.s.l.
Height above mean sea level is a measure of a location's vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) in reference to a vertical datum based ...
References
Glaciers of Spitsbergen
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