Flanders Moraine
| Flanders Moraine | ||
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| location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Vestfold Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 68 ° 38 ′ S , 78 ° 26 ′ E | |
The Flanders Moraine ( English for Flanders moraine ) is an approximately 3 km long and 1 km wide moraine on the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . It extends in the Vestfold Mountains .
The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named them descriptive on December 3, 1984. With its press mounds , small lakes and streams running under the ice, it is reminiscent of battlefields in Flanders during the First World War .
Web links
- Flanders Moraine in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)