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The locations of Norway (yellowish white) and Queen Maud Land (red stripes). This map in Winkel tripel projection distorts sizes; Antarctica is much smaller than it appears here. Like all other territorial claims in Antarctica, the Norwegian claim of Queen Maud Land (along with its claim of Peter I Island) is subject to the Antarctic Treaty ...
Location of Queen Maud mountains in Antarctica The Queen Maud Mountains ( 86°00′S 160°00′W / 86.000°S 160.000°W / -86.000; -160.000 ) are a major group of mountains, ranges and subordinate features of the Transantarctic Mountains , lying between the Beardmore and Reedy Glaciers and including the area from the head of the ...
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A speculative representation of Antarctica labelled as ' Terra Australis Incognita ' on Jan Janssonius's Zeekaart van het Zuidpoolgebied (1657), Het Scheepvaartmuseum The name given to the continent originates from the word antarctic, which comes from Middle French antartique or antarctique ('opposite to the Arctic') and, in turn, the Latin antarcticus ('opposite to the north').
The South Pole–Queen Maud Land Traverse (SPQMLT) was a three-part scientific exploration of Antarctica undertaken by the United States in the 1960s. The three parts, referred to individually as South Pole–Queen Maud Land Traverse I, II, and III (SPQMLT-1, -2, and -3), traveled a zigzag route across nearly 4200 km of the Antarctic Plateau in ...
1.1 Map. 1.2 Photo gallery. ... Queen Maud Land, in Antarctica, possession since 1939. Map. Location of Norway and its overseas territories. Photo gallery
The sheer ice cliffs of the Caird Coast as seen by Shackleton's Expedition in January 1915. Coats Land is a region in Antarctica which lies westward of Queen Maud Land and forms the eastern shore of the Weddell Sea, extending in a general northeast–southwest direction between 20°00′W and 36°00′W.
Peter I Island (Norwegian: Peter I Øy) [1] is an uninhabited volcanic island in the Bellingshausen Sea, 450 kilometres (240 nmi) from continental Antarctica.It is claimed as a dependency of Norway and, along with Bouvet Island and Queen Maud Land, composes one of the three Norwegian dependent territories in the Antarctic and Subantarctic.