Chapel
Chapel | ||
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location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
Mountains | Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains | |
Geographical location | 71 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ S , 6 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Type | Canyon |
Kapellet ( Norwegian for chapel ) is a deeply carved gorge with steep rock and ice walls in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . It is located on the east side of the Jøkulkyrkja mountain in the Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains .
Norwegian cartographers gave the gorge its name and mapped it based on surveys and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960).
Web links
- Kapellet Canyon in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kapellet Canyon on geographic.org (English)
- Kapellet on an aerial photo from January 31, 1939 of the German Antarctic Expedition 1938/39 (PDF, geographical names added later)