Geography Queen Maud Land

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the drygalski mountains, constituent range of orvin mountains


queen maud land extends boundary coats land in west boundary enderby land in east, , divided princess martha coast, princess astrid coast, princess ragnhild coast, prince harald coast , prince olav coast. territory estimated cover around 2,700,000 square kilometres (1,000,000 sq mi). limits of claim, put forth in 1939, did not fix northern , southern limits other mainland beach in antarctica ... land lies beyond beach , sea beyond . sea extends off coast between longitudal limits of queen maud land called king haakon vii sea.


there no ice-free land @ coast; coast consists of 20-to-30-metre high (70 100 ft) wall of ice throughout entire territory. possible disembark ship in few places. 150 200 kilometres (90 120 mi) coast, rocky peaks pierce ice cap, @ mean height of around 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) above sea level, highest point @ jøkulkyrkja (3,148 metres or 10,328 feet) in mühlig-hofmann mountains. other major mountain ranges heimefront range, orvin mountains, wohlthat mountains , sør rondane mountains.


geologically, ground of queen maud land dominated precambrian gneiss, formed c. 1 1.2 ga, before creation of supercontinent gondwana. mountains consist of crystalline , granitic rocks, formed c. 500 600 ma in pan-african orogeny during assembly of gondwana. in farthest western parts of territory, there younger sedimentary , volcanic rocks. research on thickness of ice has revealed without ice, coast similar of norway , greenland, deep fjords , islands.





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