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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 ...
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 .
Titan Dome is a large ice dome on the polar plateau, trending east–west and rising to 3,100 metres (10,200 ft) between the Queen Maud Mountains and the South Pole. The dome was first crossed by the sledge parties of Shackleton, Amundsen, and Scott on their journeys toward the South Pole, and was described as a major snow ridge.
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 .
King Haakon VII Vidde was the name given to the entire plateau surrounding the South Pole in honour of King Haakon VII of Norway, now denoted the Antarctic Plateau. Queen Maud Land is named in honour of Queen Maud of Norway. Five sectors of Queen Maud Land have been named after other members of the royal family: Prins Olav Kyst; Kronprinsesse ...
Queen Maud Land 3,937 feet (1,200 m) ... (serving Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station) ... —World Aero Data; Antarctic facilities in operation—COMNAP;
Plateau Station is an inactive American research and South Pole—Queen Maud Land Traverse support base on the central Antarctic Plateau.Construction on the site started on December 13, 1965, and the first traverse team (named SPQML II) arrived in early 1966.
The Beardmore Glacier in Antarctica is one of the largest valley glaciers in the world, being 200 km (125 mi) long and having a width of 40 km (25 mi). [1] It descends about 2,200 m (7,200 ft) [1] from the Antarctic Plateau to the Ross Ice Shelf and is bordered by the Commonwealth Range of the Queen Maud Mountains on the eastern side and the Queen Alexandra Range of the Central Transantarctic ...