Straumsida
| Straumsida | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Ahlmannryggen | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 44 ′ S , 1 ° 15 ′ W | |
The Straumsida ( Norwegian for river flank ) is a 40 km long cliff in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . The cliff rises as the eastern slope of the Ahlmannryggen at the mouth of the Jutulstraumen in the Fimbul Ice Shelf .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named it, mapped it using surveys and aerial photographs of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952) and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960) taken between 1958 and 1959 .
Web links
- Straumsida Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Straumsida Bluff on geographic.org (English)