Fredbotnen
| Fredbotnen | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sverdrupfjella | |
| Geographical location | 72 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ S , 0 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Fredbotnen is an icy mountain basin in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In the Sverdrupfjella it lies on the west side of the Rootshorga .
The first aerial photographs were taken during the German Antarctic Expedition (1938–1939). Norwegian cartographers mapped the mountain basin using aerial photographs of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (NBSAE, 1949–1952) and the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960). They named it after the Canadian Ernest Frederick "Fred" Roots (1923-2016), senior geologist at the NBSAE.
Web links
- Fred Cirque in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fred Cirque on geographic.org (English)