Tunet
| Tunet | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 72 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ S , 4 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Tunet (Norwegian for forecourt ) is a semicircular valley filled with glacial ice in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . It is located in the Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains on the north side of Hochlinfjellet .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named the valley, mapped it on the basis of aerial photographs and measurements made by the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960).
Web links
- Tunet Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tunet Valley on geographic.org (English)