Axel Heiberg Glacier

- 85.416666666667 - 163Koordinaten: 85 ° 25 ' S, 163 ° 0' W

The Axel Heiberg Glacier, short Heiberg Glacier is a 48 km long valley glaciers, which flows down between the Herbert Range and Mount Don Pedro Christophersen in the Queen Maud Mountains from the polar plateau to the Ross Ice Shelf.

He was discovered had supported in November 1911 by Roald Amundsen, who named it after Consul Axel Heiberg, a Norwegian businessman and patron research, the numerous Norwegian polar expeditions. Amundsen used the glacier at its successful South Pole expedition as a route to the polar plateau.