Jutulstraumen Glacier

Jutulstraumen Glacier is a large outlet glacier and ice stream in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, flowing north for about 120 nautical miles between the Kirwan Escarpment, Borg Massif, and Ahlmann Ridge to the west and the Sverdrup Mountains to the east before draining into the Fimbul Ice Shelf. Near the coast the ice stream reaches speeds of around 4 meters per day and becomes heavily crevassed. Its name means the giants stream in Norwegian, after the troll-like jutul figures of Norwegian folklore, and it was mapped from surveys and aerial photographs taken during the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition of 1949-52 and later Norwegian expeditions in 1958-59. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/