Skallevik necks
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| location | Prince Harald Coast , Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 69 ° 41 ′ S , 39 ° 18 ′ E | |
Skallevikhalsen (Norwegian for skull neck ) are a 6 km long series of rocky hills on the Prince Harald Coast of Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica . They are located immediately west of the Skallevika Bay on the southeast bank of the Lützow-Holm Bay .
Norwegian cartographers, who named it after the naming of the neighboring bay Skallevika, mapped it on the basis of aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 .
Web links
- Skallevikhalsen Hills in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Skallevikhalsen Hills on geographic.org (English)