Vindegghallet
| Vindegghallet | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Alexander von Humboldt Mountains , Wohlthatmassiv | |
| length | 6.5 km | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 49 ′ 0 ″ S , 11 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Vindegghallet ( Norwegian for ridge slope ) is a 6.5 km long glacier in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . In the Alexander von Humboldt Mountains of the Wohlthat massif, it flows on the south side of the Flånuten .
He was discovered and photographed during the German Antarctic Expedition (1938–1939) under the direction of Alfred Ritscher . Norwegian cartographers, who also named it after the nearby Vindegga , mapped it on the basis of measurements and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956-1960).
Web links
- Vindegghallet Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Vindegghallet Glacier on geographic.org (English)