Posadowsky Glacier, Bouvet Island

#7 among attractions in Bouvet Island

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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. ()

Alternative names: Coordinates: 54°25'0"S, 3°22'0"E

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Bouvet Island

Day trips

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

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

0.9 miE
Mountain
Olavtoppen, Bouvet Island
22 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.
1.3 miSW
Mountain
Mosbytoppane, Bouvet Island
34 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.
3.3 miSW
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Larsøya, Bouvet Island
83 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.
2.7 miSW
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Benn Skerries, Bouvet Island
68 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.
0.7 miW
Natural feature
Horntvedt Glacier, Bouvet Island
18 min walk • Horntvedt Glacier is a small glacier flowing to the north coast of the island of Bouvetøya. It is situated immediately east of Cape Circoncision.