Nordenskjold Basin
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Nordenskjold Basin is an undersea basin named in association with the Nordenskjold Ice Tongue
(itself after explorer Otto Nordenskiöld
). Name approved 4/80 (ACUF 201).
Nordenskjold Ice Tongue
Nordenskjold Ice Tongue is a broad glacier tongue extending eastward from the Mawson Glacier into the Ross Sea in Antarctica.Discovered by the Discovery expedition and named for Otto Nordenskiöld. Although this feature is a glacier tongue, the generic term ice tongue is retained in the name to...
(itself after explorer Otto Nordenskiöld
Otto Nordenskiöld
Nils Otto Gustaf Nordenskjöld was a Finnish and Swedish geologist, geographer, and polar explorer.-Biography:...
). Name approved 4/80 (ACUF 201).