Løken moraines
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| location | Wilkesland , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 17 ′ S , 110 ° 37 ′ E | |
 Map of the middle Windmill Islands with the Løken Moraines (right of center) |
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The Løken moraines are 11 km long moraines with north-south orientation on the Budd coast of the East Antarctic Wilkesland . They are 0.8 to 3 km inland from the Windmill Islands immediately east of the base of the Clark , Bailey and Mitchell Peninsulas .
Aerial photographs of the US operation Highjump (1946–1947) and Operation Windmill (1947–1948) were used to map them. The American polar explorer Carl Robert Eklund named it after the Norwegian glaciologist Olav Helge Løken (1931-2015), who was part of the team at Wilkes Station in 1957 .
Web links
- Løken Moraines in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Løken Moraines on geographic.org (English)