Tangekilen
| Tangekilen | ||
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| Waters | Riiser Larsen Lake | |
| Land mass | Princess Ragnhild Coast , Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ S , 26 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Tangekilen ( Norwegian for Tongue Bay is) a recess of the ice shelf in front of the Princess Ragnhild Coast north of the mountain Sør Rondane in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It is located 70 km east-northeast of the Breidvika .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named it, mapped the bay based on aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . It is named after the Kiletangen glacier tongue , which flows into the ice shelf immediately east of the bay.
Web links
- Tangekilen Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tangekilen Bay on geographic.org (English)