Circles
| Circles | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sør Rondane | |
| length | 13 km | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 13 ′ S , 22 ° 10 ′ E | |
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The Kreiskreis is a 13 km glacier in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . It flows in the western part of the mountains Sør Rondane between the Nunatakker group Tertene and the Bamsefjell in a northerly direction.
Norwegian cartographers mapped it in 1957 using aerial photographs taken during the US Operation Highjump (1946–1947). It is named after William Rutherford Kreitzer (1918-2007), flight commander of one of the three crews who take aerial photographs of the coast between 14 ° and 164 ° east longitude during Operation Highjump .
Web links
- Kreitzerisen in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Circles on geographic.org (English)