Storkvæven
| Storkvæven | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sverdrupfjella | |
| Geographical location | 72 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ S , 0 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Storkvæven ( Norwegian for Cauldron is) an icy mountain basin in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . Near the southern end of Sverdrupfjella , it is on the northwest side of Nupskåpa .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named it, mapped the mountain basin based on aerial photographs and measurements of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (NBSAE, 1949–1952) and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960) taken between 1958 and 1959 .
Web links
- Storkvaeven Cirque in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Storkvaeven Cirque on geographic.org (English)