Borchgrevinkisen
| Borchgrevinkisen | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sør Rondane | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 10 ′ S , 21 ° 30 ′ E | |
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The Borchgrevinkisen is a glacier in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . It flows in a northerly direction to the west side of the Nunatak Taggen in the west of the Sør Rondane mountains .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it in 1957 using aerial photographs taken during the US Operation Highjump (1946–1947). It is named after the Norwegian polar explorer Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink (1864–1934), leader of the Southern Cross Expedition (1898–1900).
Web links
- Borchgrevinkisen in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Borchgrevinkisen on geographic.org (English)