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  2. Queen Maud Land - Wikipedia

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    Queen Maud Land (Norwegian: Dronning Maud Land) [note 1] is a roughly 2.7-million-square-kilometre (1.0-million-square-mile) [5] region of Antarctica claimed by Norway as a dependent territory. [6] It borders the claimed British Antarctic Territory 20° west and the Australian Antarctic Territory 45° east .

  3. Territorial claims in Antarctica - Wikipedia

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    On 6 March 1931 a Norwegian royal proclamation declared the island under Norwegian sovereignty [14] and on 23 March 1933 the island was declared a dependency. [15] [note 3] The 1929 expedition led by Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen and Finn Lützow-Holm named the continental landmass near the island as Queen Maud Land after the Norwegian queen Maud of ...

  4. Deception Island - Wikipedia

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    On 4 February 2007, the Spanish Gabriel de Castilla research station on Deception Island reported that water and sand tests were clean, and that they had not found signs of the oil, estimated as 500 to 750 L of light diesel (130 to 200 US gal; 110 to 160 imp gal). Deception Island exhibits some wildly varying microclimates. Near volcanic areas ...

  5. Dependencies of Norway - Wikipedia

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    Bouvet Island was claimed in 1927 (formally in 1930; in 1935 the island was declared a nature reserve for seals). Peter I Island was claimed in 1929 (formally in 1931). Queen Maud Land (45°E to 20°E) was formally claimed as a Norwegian possession on 14 January 1938. King Harald V became the first reigning monarch to visit Antarctica.

  6. Vapour Col - Wikipedia

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    Vapour Col is a col lying south of Stonethrow Ridge on the west side of Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.The name given by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1959 originates from the fumaroles in the col. [1] This is the only locality on Deception Island where there is a complete cross section through the stratigraphy of volcanic succession.

  7. List of possessions of Norway - Wikipedia

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    Peter I Island, in the Antarctic and Southern Ocean, possession since 1929. Bouvet Island, in the sub-Antarctic and South Atlantic Ocean, possession since 1930. Queen Maud Land, in Antarctica, possession since 1939.

  8. Queen Maud Mountains - Wikipedia

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    Elevations bordering the Beardmore Glacier, at the western extremity of these mountains, were observed by the British expeditions led by Ernest Shackleton (1907–09) and Robert Falcon Scott (1910-13), but the mountains as a whole were mapped by several American expeditions led by Richard Evelyn Byrd (1930s and 1940s), and United States Antarctic Program (USARP) and New Zealand Antarctic ...

  9. Troll Airfield - Wikipedia

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    Troll Airfield is an airstrip located 6.8 kilometres (4.2 mi) from the research station Troll in Princess Martha Coast in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.Owned and operated by the Norwegian Polar Institute, it consists of a 3,300-by-100-metre (10,830 by 330 ft) runway on glacial blue ice on the Antarctic ice sheet.

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