Vasil'evbreen is a glacier in
Sørkapp Land
Sørkapp Land is the land area south of Hornsund, at the southern part of Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Two glaciers, Hornbreen and Hambergbreen, divide Sørkapp Land from Torell Land.
Sørkapp Land is included in the Sør-Spitsbergen National Par ...
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 an extension of about twenty kilometers, with several tributary glaciers. It is named after Russian astronomer
Alexandr Semenovich Vasil'ev.
The glacier has a wide front facing towards the eastern shore of Spitsbergen, including the bay of
Isbukta
Isbukta is a bay in Sørkapp Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It is located at the eastern shore of Spitsbergen, extending between Morenetangen and Nordre Randberget. The glacier Vasil'evbreen debouches into the bay from north, and Sørkappfonn ...
.
The southern part of Vasil'evbreen is called
Randbreen, located north of
Istoppane and
Dumskolten, and south of
Søre Randberget.
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References
Glaciers of Spitsbergen
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