Grautskåla
| Grautskåla | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Alexander von Humboldt Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 71 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ S , 11 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Grautskåla ( Norwegian for porridge bowl ) is a basin in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In the Alexander von Humboldt Mountains it is north of the Altar mountain .
It was discovered and mapped using aerial photographs during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . A new mapping and the naming were made by participants of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960).
Web links
- Grautskåla Cirque in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Grautskåla Cirque on geographic.org (English)