Furdesanden
| Furdesanden | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Orvinfjella | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 48 ′ S , 9 ° 37 ′ E | |
Furdesanden (Norwegian for sand furrow ) is a moraine in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . In the Orvinfjella it extends in north-south orientation over a length of 28 km along the west side of the Conrad Mountains .
Aerial photos were taken during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of Alfred Ritscher . Norwegian cartographers, who also named them descriptively, mapped them on the basis of aerial photographs and measurements of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960).
Web links
- Furdesanden Moraine in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Furdesanden Moraine on geographic.org (English)