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Queen Maud Land (Norwegian: Dronning Maud Land) is a roughly 2.7-million-square-kilometre (1.0-million-square-mile) region of Antarctica claimed by Norway as a dependent territory. It borders the claimed British Antarctic Territory 20° west and the Australian Antarctic Territory 45° east .
- 2,700,000 km² (1,000,000 sq mi)
- 3,148 m (10,328 ft)
- 2,000 m (7,000 ft)
- Maud of Wales
Article History. Queen Maud Land, region of Antarctica south of Africa, extending from Coats Land (west) to Enderby Land (east) and including the Princess Martha, Princess Astrid, Princess Ragnhild, Prince Harold, and Prince Olav coasts. A barren plateau covered by an ice sheet up to 1.5 miles (2.4 km) thick, it has a mountainous coastal area ...
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Jan 31, 2018 · Arguably the most exciting came late in the year: With three other all-star climbers, he notched new ascents in one of the world’s great frontiers: Antarctica’s Queen Maud Land. By sheer ...
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Queen Maud Land (Norwegian: Dronning Maud Land) is a region of Antarctica claimed by Norway as a dependent territory. Its size is about 2.7-million-square-kilometre (1.0-million-square-mile). It borders the claimed British Antarctic Territory 20° west and the Australian Antarctic Territory 45° east.
Jan 24, 2018 · High above the mountainous, alien environment of Antarctica’s Queen Maud Land, four climbers teetered up an exposed rib of crumbling granite no wider than a timber plank and rising at a steep 80 ...
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Queen Maud Land is a roughly 2.7-million-square-kilometre (1.0-million-square-mile) region of Antarctica claimed by Norway as a dependent territory. It borders the claimed British Antarctic Territory 20° west and the Australian Antarctic Territory 45° east. In addition, a small unclaimed area from 1939 was annexed in June 2015. Positioned in East Antarctica, it makes out about one-fifth of ...
The station opened in 2001, and is the logistic base for the ice coring project in Dronning Maud Land, the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica . The station is supplied by a convoy of 6 towing vehicles, which resupply it twice a year. List of current research stations Novolazarevskaya station.
