Trollkjelen
Coordinates: 71 ° 17 ′ S , 0 ° 50 ′ W
Trollkjelen (Norwegian for Trollkessel ) is a 19 km long area of crevasses in the Fimbul Ice Shelf on the Princess Martha coast of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It is just off the northeastern side of the Trollkjelneset headland .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named the area, mapped it using geodetic surveys and aerial photographs of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960) from 1958 to 1959.
Web links
- Trollkjelen in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
- Trollkjelen on geographic.org