Flatnes
| Flatnes | ||
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| location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
| Type | Glacier tongue | |
| length | 5 km | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ S , 76 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| drainage | Prydz Bay , Southern Ocean | |
The Flatnes (Norwegian for flat headland ) is a 5 km glacier tongue on the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . In the southeastern part of Prydz Bay , it forms the western limit of the Hovdevika .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named them, mapped them using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . The American cartographer John H. Roscoe determined the actual nature of the object on the basis of aerial photographs of the American Operation Highjump (1946–1947), which led to a corresponding adaptation of the name.
Web links
- Flatnes Ice Tongue in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Flatnes Ice Tongue on geographic.org (English)