Altar ducks
| Altar ducks | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Alexander von Humboldt Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 39 ′ S , 11 ° 26 ′ E | |
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Altarduken (Norwegian for altar cloth ) is a small glacier in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . It lies at the head of the Grautskåla basin in the Alexander von Humboldt Mountains .
It was discovered and mapped using aerial photographs during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . A new mapping was carried out by participants in the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960). They named the mountain in connection with the mountain altar east of the glacier .
Web links
- Altar Duken Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Altarduken Glacier on geographic.org (English)