Eighth Norwegian Antarctic Expedition

Coast of Peter I Island, destination of the expedition

The Norwegian Antarctic Expedition 1986–1987 (NorAE 1986–1987) was a research trip to the Antarctic funded by the Norwegian Polar Institute . The eleven-day venture to Peter I Island off the Eights coast of the west Antarctic Ellsworthland , led by geodesist and topographer Knut Svendsen , served biological , glaciological and cartographic studies as well as the creation of aerial photographs.

See also

• Norwegian Antarctic Expedition

literature

• John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1123 (English)