Tunga (Antarctica)
| Tunga | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Kirwanveggen in Maudheimvidda | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ S , 5 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Tunga ( Norwegian for tongue ) is a prominent rock spur in Queen Maud's Antarctic land . It rises up immediately southwest of the Gommen valley in the Kirwanveggen of Maudheimvidda .
Norwegian cartographers named it and mapped it on the basis of surveys and aerial photographs of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952) and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960).
Web links
- Tunga track in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tunga Spur on geographic.org (English)