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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 .
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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 ...
Queen Maud Land, in Antarctica, possession since 1939. Map. Location of Norway and its overseas territories. Photo gallery. Jan Mayen with Beerenberg volcano.
Geographical map of Antarctica. Almost completely covered in thick, permanent ice, East Antarctica comprises Coats Land, Queen Maud Land, Enderby Land, Kemp Land, Mac. . Robertson Land, Princess Elizabeth Land, Wilhelm II Land, Queen Mary Land, Wilkes Land, Adélie Land, George V Land, Oates Land and Victori
The Queen Maud Land ( Norwegian: Dronning Maud Land) is a c. 2.7 million square kilometre (1.04 million sq mi) region of Antartica claimed as a dependent territory of Norway. It was named after the Norwegian queen Maud of Wales (1869-1938).
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.
New Swabia (Norwegian and German: Neuschwabenland) was an area of Antarctica explored and briefly claimed by Nazi Germany within the Norwegian territorial claim of Queen Maud Land in early 1939. The region was named after the expedition's ship, Schwabenland, itself named after the German region of Swabia.