Bowl moraine
| Bowl moraine | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Alexander von Humboldt Mountains in the Wohlthatmassiv | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 34 ′ S , 11 ° 32 ′ E | |
The bowl moraine is a large moraine in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . In the north-central part of the Alexander von Humboldt Mountains in the Wohlthat massif , it is located in the middle of the In der Schüssel valley .
Participants in the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher discovered and mapped them. In 1961, participants in a Soviet Antarctic expedition took aerial photographs and named the moraine based on the name of the valley in which it is located.
Web links
- Moraine bowl in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bowl of Moraine on geographic.org