Bergslienfallet
| Bergslienfallet | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Heimefrontfjella | |
| length | 2 km | |
| Coordinates | 74 ° 36 ′ 54 ″ S , 10 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Bergslienfallet ( Norwegian ) is a 2 km long glacier break in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In Heimefrontfjella , it is the south-westerly glacier break of the XU-Fjella .
Scientists at the Norwegian Polar Institute named him in 1985 after the Norwegian police officer Solveig Bergslien (1919–1943), an employee of the military intelligence service during the German occupation of Norway in World War II , who was murdered by the Gestapo .
Web links
- Bergslienfallet in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
- Bergslienfallet in the Norwegian Polar Institute directory