Aurdalen
| Aurdalen | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Petermann chains in the Wohlthatmassiv | |
| Geographical location | 71 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ S , 12 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Aurdalen ( Norwegian for scree valley ) is a small valley with moraine scree in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It lies between the Gråkammen and the Aurdalsegga in the Petermann range of the Wohlthatmassiv .
The valley was discovered and mapped during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . A new mapping based on aerial photographs and measurements as well as the descriptive naming were carried out during the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960).
Web links
- Aurdalen Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Aurdalen Valley on geographic.org (English)