Aurkjosen
| Aurkjosen | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Otto von Gruber Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 71 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ S , 13 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Aurkjosen is a largely ice-free basin in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land, characterized by some old moraines . It is located on the east side of the Untersee in the Otto von Gruber Mountains of the Wohlthat massif .
The cauldron was discovered and mapped using aerial photographs during the German Antarctic Expedition (1938–1939) under the direction of Alfred Ritscher . A new mapping took place during the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960). Its Norwegian name translates into German as "scree throat".
Web links
- Aurkjosen Cirque in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Aurkjosen Cirque on geographic.org (English)