Nilsevidda
| Nilsevidda | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Sverdrupfjella | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 7 ′ S , 0 ° 27 ′ E | |
The Nilsevidda is an icy plateau stretching over 40 km in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In the Sverdrupfjella it is north of the Roerkult .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named it, mapped it on the basis of surveys and aerial photographs of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952) and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960) from 1958 to 1959 Norwegian Nils Roer (* 1914), geodesist on the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition.
Web links
- Nils Plain in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Nils Plain on geographic.org (English)