Krylvika
| Krylvika | ||
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| Waters | Fimbul Ice Shelf , Lake Lazarev | |
| Land mass | Princess Martha Coast of Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 71 ° 14 ′ S , 5 ° 30 ′ W | |
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| width | 50 km | |
The Krylvika (Norwegian for Humpback Bay is) a 50 km wide and the Fimbul Ice Shelf occupied bay at the Princess Martha Coast of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Lands . It lies between the headlands of Båkeneset in the west and Trollkjelneset in the east.
Norwegian cartographers, who named them after the name of the neighboring hill Krylen , mapped them using aerial photographs and measurements of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952) as well as aerial photographs from 1958 to 1959 of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition .
Web links
- Krylvika Bight in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Krylvika Bight on geographic.org (English)