Kile rods
| Kile rods | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 57 ′ S , 26 ° 25 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Southern ocean | |
Kiletangen (Norwegian for wedge tongue ) is a narrow glacier tongue in the middle of the ice shelf on the Princess Ragnhild coast of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named them, mapped them using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 .
Web links
- Kiletangen Ice Tongue in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kiletangen Ice Tongue on geographic.org