Langnes Fjord
| Langnes Fjord | ||
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| Waters | Cooperation lake | |
| Land mass | Princess Elisabeth Land | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 30 ′ S , 78 ° 15 ′ E | |
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| length | 16 km | |
| Islands | Partizan Island , Soldier Island , Topografov Island , Zvuchnyy Island | |
The Langnes Fjord is a narrow fjord on the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . It lies between the Breidnes Peninsula and the Langnes Peninsula in the Vestfold Mountains .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . The American cartographer John H. Roscoe used aerial photographs of Operation Highjump (1946–1947) to show that the fjord is further east than originally assumed and that the fjord includes a supposedly isolated lake, which the Norwegians call Breidvatnet (German: Wide lake ). The fjord is named in connection with the peninsula of the same name.
Web links
- Langnes Fjord in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Langnes Fjord on geographic.org (English)