Vestre Torellbreen

Vestre Torellbreen is a glacier in Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It lies to the southwest of Wedel Jarlsberg Land, and runs southward to Isfjellbukta. There was previously a 20 km wide glacier here together with Austre Torellbreen, but after the glacier split, there are now two glaciers each of around one km wide in the area known as Torellmorenen.[1]

Vestre Torellbreen on a map of Svalbard

The glacier is named after the Swedish geologist and glaciologist Professor Otto Torell (1828-1900)[2]

References
  1. https://geographic.org/geographic_names/name.php?uni=-3397836&fid=5886&c=svalbard
  2. Torellbreen Stadnamn i norske polarområde, Norsk polarinstitutt. Accessed 11 March 2013
Vestre Torellbreen runs south to Kapp Borthen in Isfjellbukta (to the left). The mountains are Peder Kokkfjellet and Buggefjellet


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