Jøkulskarvet
| Jøkulskarvet | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Borg massif | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 40 ′ S , 3 ° 18 ′ W | |
The Jøkulskarvet ( Norwegian for Glacier Mountain ) is a large ridge of ice-covered peaks in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In the Borg massif, it rises northeast of the Høgfonna .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named it descriptively, mapped it on the basis of aerial photographs and measurements of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952).
Web links
- Jøkulskarvet Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Jøkulskarvet Ridge on geographic.org (English)