Hutamatasøkket
| Hutamatasøkket | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sør Rondane | |
| Geographical location | 72 ° 0 ′ 54 ″ S , 27 ° 29 ′ 30 ″ E | |
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| Type | Trough valley | |
The Hutamatasøkket ( Norwegian ; Japanese 二 股 谷 Hutamata-dani , German 'forked valley' ) is a striking and more than 200 m deep trough valley of the Sør Rondane in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It is located in the eastern part of the Gropeheia .
Japanese scientists took aerial photographs between 1981 and 1982 and 1987. Surveys took place between 1987 and 1988. You named the valley descriptively in 1989. Scientists from the Norwegian Polar Institute translated the Japanese name into a partial translation into Norwegian in 1990.
Web links
- Hutamatasøkket in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
- Hutamatasøkket in the directory of the Norwegian Polar Institute (English)