Borggarden
| Borggarden | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Borg massif | |
| Geographical location | 72 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ S , 3 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Borggarden (Norwegian for castle courtyard ) is a wide and icy valley 16 km in length in Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica . In the north-western part of the Borg massif , it lies between the mountains Borga and Veten .
Norwegian cartographers, who also made the descriptive naming, mapped the valley on the basis of measurements and aerial photographs of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952).
Web links
- Borggarden Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Borggarden Valley on geographic.org (English)