Sekkodokka

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Sekkodokka
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location Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Sør Rondane
Geographical location 71 ° 57 '54 "  S , 27 ° 23' 30"  O Coordinates: 71 ° 57 '54 "  S , 27 ° 23' 30"  O
Sekkodokka (Antarctica)
Sekkodokka

The Sekkodokka ( Norwegian ; Japanese 石膏 谷 Sekko-dani , German 'Gipstal' ) is a depression more than 150 m deep in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It is located east of the Hunakubogropa in the northern part of the Gropeheia in the Balchenfjella of the Sør Rondane .

Japanese scientists took aerial photographs between 1981 and 1982 and carried out surveys between 1987 and 1988 . They named the valley in 1989 after the large gypsum crystals found here . Scientists at the Norwegian Polar Institute translated the Japanese name into Norwegian in 1990.

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