Bulkisen
| Bulkisen | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sør Rondane | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 48 ′ S , 26 ° 47 ′ E | |
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The Bulkisen ( Norwegian for lump ice ) is a blue ice glacier in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . It flows between the Austhamaren and the Bulken in the Sør Rondane mountains .
Norwegian cartographers, who named it after the neighboring hill Bulken, mapped it in 1957 using aerial photographs of the American Operation Highjump (1946–1947).
Web links
- Bulkisen in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bulkisen on geographic.org (English)