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The Axel Heiberg Glacier is a valley glacier
Glacier

A glacier is a large, slow-moving mass of ice, formed from compacted layers of snow, that slowly deforms and flows in response to gravity and high pressure....
, 48 km (30 mi) long, descending from the polar plateau to the Ross Ice Shelf
Ross Ice Shelf

File:Map-antarctica-ross-ice-shelf-red-x.pngThe Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica . It is several hundred meters thick. The nearly vertical ice front to the open sea is more than 600 km long, and between 15 and 50 meters high above the water surface....
 between the Herbert Range
Herbert Range

The Herbert Range is a mountain range in the Queen Maud Mountains of Antarctica, extending from the edge of the Antarctic Plateau to the Ross Ice Shelf between the Axel Heiberg Glacier and Strom Glacier glaciers....
 and Mount Don Pedro Christophersen, in the Queen Maud Mountains
Queen Maud Mountains

The Queen Maud Mountains are a major group of mountains, mountain range and subordinate features of the Transantarctic Mountains, lying between the Beardmore Glacier and Reedy Glaciers and including the area from the head of the Ross Ice Shelf to the polar plateau in Antarctica....
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The Axel Heiberg Glacier is a valley glacier
Glacier

A glacier is a large, slow-moving mass of ice, formed from compacted layers of snow, that slowly deforms and flows in response to gravity and high pressure....
, 48 km (30 mi) long, descending from the polar plateau to the Ross Ice Shelf
Ross Ice Shelf

File:Map-antarctica-ross-ice-shelf-red-x.pngThe Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica . It is several hundred meters thick. The nearly vertical ice front to the open sea is more than 600 km long, and between 15 and 50 meters high above the water surface....
 between the Herbert Range
Herbert Range

The Herbert Range is a mountain range in the Queen Maud Mountains of Antarctica, extending from the edge of the Antarctic Plateau to the Ross Ice Shelf between the Axel Heiberg Glacier and Strom Glacier glaciers....
 and Mount Don Pedro Christophersen, in the Queen Maud Mountains
Queen Maud Mountains

The Queen Maud Mountains are a major group of mountains, mountain range and subordinate features of the Transantarctic Mountains, lying between the Beardmore Glacier and Reedy Glaciers and including the area from the head of the Ross Ice Shelf to the polar plateau in Antarctica....
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It was discovered in November 1911 by Captain Roald Amundsen
Roald Amundsen

Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen , was a Norwegian people Exploration of polar regions. He led the first Antarctica expedition to reach the South Pole between 1910 and 1912....
, and named by him for Consul Axel Heiberg, Norwegian business man and patron of science, who contributed to numerous Norwegian
Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
 polar expeditions. Amundsen used this glacier as his route up onto the polar plateau on his successful expedition to the South Pole
South Pole

The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is one of the two points where the Earth's rotation intersects the surface....
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See also


  • List of glaciers in the Antarctic
    List of glaciers in the Antarctic

    This is a list of glaciers in the Antarctic.Ice streams are a type of glacier and many of them have 'glacier' in their name, e.g. Pine Island Glacier....
  • Beardmore Glacier
    Beardmore Glacier

    The Beardmore Glacier in Antarctica is one of the largest glaciers in the world, with a length exceeding 160 km . The glacier is one of the main passages from the Ross Ice Shelf through the Queen Alexandra Range and Commonwealth Range ranges of the Transantarctic Mountains to the Antarctic Plateau, and was one of the early routes to the Sou...