Buråsbotnen
| Buråsbotnen | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Kottasberge in Heimefrontfjella | |
| Geographical location | 74 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ S , 9 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Type | Kar | |
The Buråsbotnen is Kar in East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In the northern part of the Kottasberge in Heimefrontfjellal, it lies between Helsetskarvet and Schivestolen .
Scientists at the Norwegian Polar Institute named him in 1969 after the Norwegian lumberjack and twelve-time father Ole Burås (1899-1944), who was murdered by the Gestapo on April 22, 1944 while trying to enable Jews to escape from occupied Norway to Sweden.
Web links
- Buråsbotnen in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
- Buråsbotnen in the directory of the Norwegian Polar Institute (English)