Kvitkleven
| Kvitkleven | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Filchnerberge in Orvinfjella | |
| Geographical location | 72 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ S , 7 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Kvitkleven (Norwegian for White Chamber ) is a mountain basin filled with glacial ice in Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica . In the Filchner Mountains of Orvinfjella, it is located on the south side of Klevekampen .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named it, mapped it on the basis of aerial photographs and measurements of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960).
Web links
- Kvitkleven Cirque in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kvitkleven Cirque on geographic.org (English)