Ketelersbreen
Ketelersbreen | ||
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location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
Mountains | Sør Rondane | |
length | 12 km | |
Coordinates | 72 ° 3 ′ S , 23 ° 22 ′ E | |
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The Ketelersbreen is a 12 km long glacier in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In the center of Sør Rondane, it lies between Vikinghøgda and Vengen .
Scientists from the Norwegian Polar Institute named it in 1973. It is named after the Belgian ionospheric physicist Roger Ketelers, who participated in a Belgian-Dutch Antarctic expedition (1964–1965).
Web links
- Ketelersbreen in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
- Ketelersbreen in the directory of the Norwegian Polar Institute (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 849 (English).