Deildedalen
| Deildedalen | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Eastern Petermann chain in the Wohlthatmassiv | |
| Geographical location | 71 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ S , 12 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Deildedalen ( Norwegian for Grenztal ) is a small opening located to the north and partly stuffed with ice valley in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It lies between the Deildenapen mountain and a massif to the west of it in the eastern Petermann chain of the Wohlthat massif .
The valley was discovered and mapped during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . A new mapping based on aerial photographs and surveys as well as the naming took place during the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960). Naming background is a spirit from the Norwegian world of legends, which illegally changes the division of property by laying boundary stones.
Web links
- Deildedalen Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Deildedalen Valley on geographic.org (English)