Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Queen Maud Land (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Queen Maud Land (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Land (1)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
That part of Antarctica lying between the terminus of Stancomb-Wills Glacier, in 2000W, and Shinnan Glacier, in 4438E. This name, given for Queen Maud of Norway, represents an expansion from that of the original core area, between 3700 and 5000E, discovered by Capt. Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen in 1930.
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