Mjøllkvævane
| Mjøllkvævane | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Payer group in Hoelfjella | |
| Geographical location | 71 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ S , 14 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mjøllkvævane (Norwegian for powder snow cauldrons ) are a series of snow-covered mountain basins in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . In the Payer group of Hoelfjella they are on the east side of Kvævefjellet .
Norwegian cartographers, who also descriptively named these mountain basins, mapped them using aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960).
Web links
- Mjøllkvaevane Cirques in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mjøllkvaevane Cirques on geographic.org (English)