Ellis Fjord
| Ellis Fjord | ||
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| Waters | Cooperation lake | |
| Land mass | Princess Elisabeth Land | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ S , 78 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Tributaries | Ellis Rapids | |
The Ellis Fjord is a long and narrow fjord on the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . It lies between the Breidnes Peninsula and the Mule Peninsula in the Vestfold Mountains .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 as a bay with a lake behind it, which they named Mulvik (German: Maulbucht ) and Langevatnet (German: Langer See ). The American cartographer John H. Roscoe used aerial photographs of Operation Highjump (1946–1947) to demonstrate that there is a connection between the two waters. The name giver is the American photographer Edwin E. Ellis (* 1924), who was responsible for the aerial photos of Operation Highjump.
Web links
- Ellis Fjord in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ellis Fjord on geographic.org (English)
- Map of the specially protected area ASPA # 143 "Marine Plain" (PDF) at the Australian Antarctic Data Center (description)