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Horntvedt Glacier, Bouvet Island

#8 among attractions in Bouvet Island

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Horntvedt Glacier location map
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Facts and practical information

Alternative names: Coordinates: 54°25'0"S, 3°21'0"E
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Bouvet Island
Day trips

Horntvedt Glacier – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Olavtoppen, Mosbytoppane, Larsøya, Benn Skerries.

  • olavtoppen bouvet island location map
    1.5 miE
    Mountain

    Olavtoppen, Bouvet Island

    39 min walk • Olavtoppen, occasionally anglicised as Olav Peak, is the highest point of Bouvet Island, a volcanic island and dependency of Norway, and the remotest island on Earth. Olavtoppen is located north of the center of the island, immediately south of Kapp Valdivia, and rises 780 meters above mean sea level.

  • mosbytoppane bouvet island location map
    1.2 miS
    Mountain

    Mosbytoppane, Bouvet Island

    30 min walk • Mosbytoppane, are two crags to the southwest of the caldera of the island of Bouvetøya. The tallest is a snow-covered peak 670 meters above mean sea level and 1.3 kilometers northeast of Norvegiaodden.

  • larsoya bouvet island location map
    2.9 miSW
    Area

    Larsøya, Bouvet Island

    74 min walk • Larsøya, sometimes anglicized as Lars Island, is a rocky island, less than 0.2 nautical miles long, which lies just off the southwestern extremity of the island of Bouvetøya in the South Atlantic Ocean. It was first roughly charted in 1898 by a German expedition under Carl Chun.

  • benn skerries bouvet island location map
    2.4 miS
    Area

    Benn Skerries, Bouvet Island

    62 min walk • Benn Skerries are a small group of rocks which extend up to 0.25 nautical miles westward from Norvegia Point on the island of Bouvetøya. They were charted and named in December 1927 by a Norwegian expedition in the Norvegia under Captain Harald Horntvedt.

  • posadowsky glacier bouvet island location map
    0.7 miE
    Natural feature

    Posadowsky Glacier, Bouvet Island

    18 min walk • Posadowsky Glacier is a glacier which flows to the north coast of the island of Bouvetøya in the Southern Atlantic Ocean. It is 1 nautical mile eastward of Cape Circoncision.

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