Lågtangen
| Lågtangen | ||
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| Coordinates | 67 ° 33 ′ S , 62 ° 0 ′ E | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land | |
| coast | Mawson Coast | |
| Waters | Cooperation lake | |
| length | 160 m | |
The Lågtangen ( Norwegian for Flat Tongue , English Low Tongue ) is a 160 m long headland on the Mawson Coast of the East Antarctic Mac-Robertson Land . It protrudes into the cooperation lake immediately west of Holme Bay .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named them descriptively, mapped them using aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia translated this designation into English.
Web links
- Low Tongue in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Low Tongue on geographic.org