Blåklettane
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location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
part of | Sør Rondane Mountains | |
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Coordinates | 72 ° 26 ′ S , 21 ° 30 ′ E |
Blåklettane (Norwegian for Blue Hills ) is a small group of hills in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . They tower 28 km southwest of Bamsefjell at the southwest end of the Sør Rondane Mountains .
Norwegian cartographers, who also used the descriptive naming, mapped it in 1957 using aerial photographs taken by the United States Navy as part of Operation Highjump (1946–1947).
Web links
- Blåklettane Hills in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Blåklettane Hills on geographic.org (English)