Flattena
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location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
Coordinates | 68 ° 51 ′ S , 40 ° 0 ′ E | |
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drainage | Southern ocean |
The Flattunga (Norwegian for flat tongue ) is a small glacier tongue in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . At the western end of the Crown Prince Olav Coast , it lies between Tottsuki Point and Tensoku Rock .
Norwegian cartographers, who named it descriptively, mapped the glacier tongue using aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 .
Web links
- Flattunga in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Flattunga on geographic.org (English)