Kvitsvodene
| Kvitsvodene | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sverdrupfjella | |
| Geographical location | 72 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ S , 0 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Kvitsvodene ( Norwegian for White Slopes ) are an icy valley about 8 km in length in Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica . It lies between the Kvitkjølen and Robinheia mountain ranges in Sverdrupfjella .
The first aerial photographs were taken during the German Antarctic Expedition (1938–1939). Norwegian cartographers mapped the valley using aerial photographs taken by the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (NBSAE, 1949–1952) and the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960).
Web links
- Kvitsvodene Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kvitsvodene Valley on geographic.org (English)