Kyrkjebakken
| Kyrkjebakken | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 54 ′ S , 6 ° 32 ′ E | |
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The Kyrkjebakken (Norwegian for church slope ) is an ice slope in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It is located in the Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains on the west side of Jøkulkyrkja .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named it, mapped it on the basis of measurements and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960).
Web links
- Kyrkjebakken Slope in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kyrkjebakken Slope on geographic.org (English)