Ketelersbreen

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Ketelersbreen
location Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Sør Rondane
length 12 km
Coordinates 72 ° 3 ′  S , 23 ° 22 ′  E Coordinates: 72 ° 3 ′  S , 23 ° 22 ′  E
Ketelersbreen (Antarctica)
Ketelersbreen

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).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 849 (English).