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In the News (Mon 16 Nov 09)

  
  Expeditions
Yet when we first came to the mountain world of Queen Maud Land, I felt that we still had a remnant of reverence and awe.
We were the first human beings there on a journey of exploration in a mythic and enigmatic land.
In Queen Maud Land, which is just about as far away as you can get, it is easy to think about incomprehensible things, the land still belongs to the realm of dreams.
www.vebjorn-sand.com /expeditions.html   (566 words)

  
  Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Queen Maud Land
Queen Maud Land (Norwegian: Dronning Maud Land) is the part of Antarctica lying between the terminus of Stancombius-Willson Glacier, at 20°W and Shinnan Glacier, at 44°38'E in the area claimed by Norway on January 14, 1938 as a dependent territory.
The area originally identified by Amundsen as Queen Maud Land lay between 37° and 50° E. In 1985, Norway established the Tor research station at Svarthammaren on Queen Maud Land's Princess Martha Coast; and in 2005, Queen Sonja of Norway opened another research station named Troll at Jutulsessen.
Dronning Maud Land, identified as the area lying from 45° to 20°E, is formally claimed by Norway.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Queen_Maud_Land   (536 words)

  
  Maud of Wales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Princess Maud of Wales (Maud Charlotte Mary Victoria) (26 November 1869 – 20 November 1938) later Queen Maud of Norway was a member of the British Royal Family, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, and later Queen consort of Norway, as the wife of King Haakon VII of Norway.
The coronation of Haakon VII and Queen Maud
Queen Maud was buried in the royal mausoleum at the Castle of Akershus.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maud_of_Wales   (735 words)

  
 Possible Physical Evidence of Atlantis
The strange thing was that the coast of Queen Maud Land had been covered with a thick sheet of ice for many centuries and its shape was only known now to modern mapmakers through the use of modern seismographic equipment.
The critics point out that the land mass shown on the map may have a similar coastline to that of Queen Maud Land, but the similarity is not unmistakable.
Though this might not explain the coastline of Queen Maud Land on the Piri map, it might be the reason that there was such a strong belief in the existence of a southern continent.
www.lost-civilizations.net /possible-physical-evidence-atlantis.html   (1666 words)

  
 Queen Maud Land: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
...be placed in no plea over the land concerned except in Rogers...fitzHervey and his lands to the queen who in turn gave them to Abingdon...allow Robert fitzHervey and his land and goods to be in peace, as...day he had given them to the queen and she had given them to Abingdon...
...appointed Physician Extraordinary to Queen Anne and George I - and his growing bank...earlier become the leaseholder of the land on which the Chelsea Physic Garden was built, and in 1722 he leased the land back to the Apothecaries for the sum...
Most of the continent is covered...names of their ships, monarchs, and relatives, including Queen Maud, Edward VII, George V and Wilhelm II.
www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/queen-maud-land.jsp?l=Q&p=1   (1414 words)

  
 Queen Maud Land
The right part of this ERS-1 SAR image, gathered on 16-1-1992, shows peaks of the Heimefront Range in Queen Maud Land of Antarctica, about 300 km inland from the coast of the Weddell Sea.
The escarpment of the Heimefront Range separates the plateau of the Amundsen Ice, situated south of the mountains, from the ice stream Veststraumen which moves from the upper right to the lower left part of the image.
Rough, partly wind eroded ice surfaces below the cliffs, covered with blocks of ice avalanches and crevasses, appear as zones of remarkably bright radar return.
earth.esa.int /applications/data_util/SARDOCS/spaceborne/Radar_Features/Ice_Features/queen_maud_land.htm   (367 words)

  
 The UnMuseum - The Piri Map
The strange thing was that the coast of Queen Maud Land had been covered with a thick sheet of ice for many centuries and its shape was only known now to modern mapmakers through the use of modern seismographic equipment.
The critics point out that the land mass shown on the map may have a similar coastline to that of Queen Maud Land, but the similarity is not unmistakable.
Though this might not explain the coastline of Queen Maud Land on the Piri map, it might be the reason that there was such a strong belief in the existence of a southern continent.
unmuseum.mus.pa.us /piri.htm   (765 words)

  
 The UnMuseum - The Piri Map
The strange thing was that the coast of Queen Maud Land had been covered with a thick sheet of ice for many centuries and its shape was only known now to modern mapmakers through the use of modern seismographic equipment.
The critics point out that the land mass shown on the map may have a similar coastline to that of Queen Maud Land, but the similarity is not unmistakable.
Though this might not explain the coastline of Queen Maud Land on the Piri map, it might be the reason that there was such a strong belief in the existence of a southern continent.
www.unmuseum.org /piri.htm   (765 words)

  
 Stamps of Queen Maud   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Maud Charlotte Mary Victoria was born in England as the youngest daughter of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra of Britain.
Without big publicity Queen Maud carried out a lot of charity work in her new country and "Queen Maud's Relief Foundation" carries her name.
The same does the "Norwegian" sector of Antarctic: Queen Maud Land.
home.online.no /~jdigrane/amd/norwomen/maud.htm   (155 words)

  
 NEXUS: Britain's Secret War in Antarctica.3
On 14 January 1939, Norway formalised its claim to Queen Maud Land in Antarctica, its course of action forced on it by the imminent German discoveries.
The RAF returned in 1948–49 and flew extensively in search of a viable base in Queen Maud Land for the joint Norwegian– British–Swedish Expedition (NBSE) that was going to last from 1949 to 1952 and whose objective was to investigate and verify the 1938 German discoveries.
Britain and Norway knew that the area of Queen Maud Land which the Nazis had utilised would be vastly different from that which was mapped in the 1930s and early 1940s.
www.nexusmagazine.com /articles/SecretWar3.html   (5637 words)

  
 UK / Polar Challenges / Expeditions / The Wall - Queen Maud Land 2000
Indeed, having already been to the South Pole in 1998 and caught what is known as the Antarctic bug, they decided to return to the 6th continent this season and select a region in Queen Maud Land called "The Jaws of the Wolf".
Just for the record, we would remind you that for the purposes of his reconnaissance expedition in Queen Maud Land, Alain did not think it necessary to take the usual transmitting equipment with him, which would have enabled him to send us this type of picture.
For those who don't know, the two men are carrying out a recce in Queen Maud Land ahead of the expedition making an attempt on the granite wall next year.
www.antarctica.org /UK/Expe/Pag_hubert/QueenMaud2000_UK/pag_UK/rec_1999_2000_UK.htm   (1678 words)

  
 DRONNING MAUD LAND
Dronning Maud Land (20°W - 45°E) whose name was given for Queen Maud of Norway when the Norwegian Captain Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen discovered it in 1930, is without doubt one of the Jewels in the Crown of the Antarctic "Far Side".
No less awe-inspiring is Dronning Maud Land's more than 3000 km -long coastline, where the striking unbroken white wall of the "barrier" presented by the seaward edge of immensely-thick, floating ice-shelves, mark the birthplace of enormous tabular icebergs.
The Schirmacher Oasis (70°46'S; 011°50'E) of central Dronning Maud Land is an Antarctic desert oasis comprising a low lying ~ 50 km² area of undulating ice-free hills interspersed with a number of glacial lakes.
www.astronomicaltours.net /Antarctica2/AddONs/MountainCamp.htm   (2133 words)

  
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The Wilkes Land margin is characterized by coastal zones of divergent ice flow punctuated by regions of convergent ice that flows into floating glacier tongues (e.g., Mertz, Ninnis, and Dibble ice tongues) (Drewry, 1983).
Queen Maud Land is one of the least studied regions of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, barring detailed investigations in Lutzow-Holm Bay.
The Queen Maud Land margin is characterized by a narrow continental shelf.
www.geology.ohio-state.edu /agg-group/reports/eastantmargin.htm   (8953 words)

  
 Strategy for Norwegian Research in Antarctica
Bottom water formation in the Weddell Sea is closely related to the general patterns of water circulation in the oceans and ocean water's interaction with glacial ice and the atmosphere.
Recognising Norway's commitment to focusing on Queen Maud Land, the Research Council of Norway recommends that Norwegian research in the southern part of the Weddell Sea be continued through Norwegian participation in the expeditions of other countries.
The continued investigation into cultural history and the establishment of effective regulations for the protection and management of Norway's cultural heritage in the Antarctic and the sub-Antarctic islands should, therefore, be based on international cooperation, and on support for Norwegian participation in the expeditions of other countries.
www.forskningsradet.no /bibliotek/publikasjoner/strat_antarktis_engelsk/04.html   (1250 words)

  
 Queen Maud Land at AllExperts
Queen Maud Land (Norwegian: Dronning Maud Land) is the part of Antarctica lying between the terminus of Stancomb-Wills Glacier, at 20°W, and Shinnan Glacier, at 44° 38'E. It has a land area of approximately 2,500,000 km², mostly covered by the Antarctic ice sheet.
It was claimed by Norway on January 14, 1938, but this claim, like all others in the Antarctic, is not universally recognized and the area is subject to the terms of the Antarctic Treaty.
1832 ¦¦; John Biscoe's expedition claims to sight Graham Land, although one source states it was Anvers Island.
en.allexperts.com /e/q/qu/queen_maud_land.htm   (601 words)

  
 HomeSchool
He was considered an expert on Mediterranean lands and coastlines, and he even wrote a famous sailing book called Kitabi Bahriye where he described all the details of coastlines, harbors, currents, shallows, bays and straits of the Mediterranean and Aegean seas.
He died in 1554 or 1555 being beheaded for unknown reasons.ð It is saidð that in a now-forgotten sea battle he met, among the prisoners, a sailor who claimed to have been sailing along with Columbus in his three journeys to the new world, and that he was one of his pilots.
It turned out that Columbus had a map of the lands he was chasing, and that this map now was in the possession of that pilot.
www.rain.org /homeschool/atlantis-piri-map-about.html   (3802 words)

  
 ant
The peaks of Holtana, which lies in the Orvin Mountain Range of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, are a great big wall challenge for the team.
It was a bumpy landing as we were in a wheel based Ilyushin, also on the plane were 30 scientists from Norway and Sweden, doing various studies for two months along the coast.
The Antarctica 2000 project will be to take two weather stations to the Queen Maud Land area of Antarctica and install one of them on top of Holtana peak the is 2650m and the second in another remote location.
www.k2news.com /ant.htm   (3169 words)

  
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Surveyed in 1955 by the FIDS and so named because there is a landing place for boats on the NW tip of the point which provides access to the inland parts of the island.
The bay was mapped in detail by an ANARE party landed by aircraft in 1956 and another landed by launch from explorer who was first to reach the South Pole.
(Graham Land is now restricted to that part of Antarctic Peninsula northward of a line between Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz; Palmer Land to the part southward of that line.) Antarctic Point 00000490 5404S 03658W Point which marks the W side of the entrance to Antarctic Bay on the N coast of South Georgia.
geonames.usgs.gov /stategaz/ANTARCTICA.TXT   (21794 words)

  
 Ancient Maps (Morgana's Observatory)
The ice-free coast of Queen Maud Land shown in the map is a colossal puzzle because the geological evidence confirms that the very latest date that it could have been surveyed and charted in an ice-free condition is 4000 BCE.
It is not possible to pinpoint the earliest date that such a task could have been accomplished, but it seems that the Queen Maud Land littoral may have remained in a stable, unglaciated condition for at least 9,000 years before the spreading ice-cap swallowed it entirely.
He was, in addition, considered to be a great expert on the lands of the Mediterranean, and was the author of a famous sailing book, known as the Kitabi Bahriye, which provided a comprehensive description of the coasts, harbors, currents, shallows, landing places, bays and straits of the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas.
www.dreamscape.com /morgana/larissa2.htm   (2402 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Queen Maud Land": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The latter are espe- cially extensively distributed in the western part of Queen Maud Land and in the upper part of Denman Glacier.
The other major exposures occur in the mountains of the Queen Maud Land coast, where intermittent mountain ranges extend along the periphery of the continent for some 1800 km, and in the Prince...
Asuka Station 7250' S, 2430' E Sor Rondane Mountains, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica Prefix A. 2524 meteorites have been recovered in 4 field seasons by Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition teams.
amazon.com /phrase/Queen-Maud-Land   (531 words)

  
 Piri Reis Map   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Geological evidence confirms that the latest date Queen Maud Land could have been charted in an ice-free state is 4000 BC.
The claim that the lower part of the map portrays the Princess Martha Coast of Queen Maud Land, Antarctic, and the Palmer Peninsular, is reasonable.
But a few reported of still unknown lands, and were circulating among few sailors who seemingly kept their knowledge about those special maps as hidden as they could.
www.e-telescope.gr /en/cat06/art06_040306.htm   (2159 words)

  
 Antarctica Claims
Argentina/UK Claim includes part of Coats Land, part of Berkner Island, and the South Orkney Islands, of which the largest is Coronation Island.
Enderby Land: named for the whaling company, Samuel Enderby & Sons, that financed the expedition which discovered it.
Queen Maud Land: named for Queen Maud, consort of Haakon VII of Norway, daughter of Edward VII of England.
www.statoids.com /uaq.html   (687 words)

  
 Queen Maud Land - Encyclopedia.com
Gas and water feminism: Maud Adeline Brereton and Edwardian domestic technology.
Love in the garden: 'Maud,' 'Great Expectations,' and W.S. Gilbert's 'Sweethearts.'
God save Queen Elizabeth II, even in Israel
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-X-QueenMau.html   (264 words)

  
 Mountain Zone News: Everest Guides Cited for Heroism
Long-awaited details of the star-studded 1997 climbing expedition to Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, finally will emerge when climbers Alex Lowe and Gordon Wiltsie hold a slide show (already sold out) in Seattle, Washington, on February 20.
There is real pent-up demand among climbers who want to know more about the Queen Maud Land expedition, but a virtual gag by sponsors has effectively prevented information from getting out until now.
The entire expedition became an issue of sorts in mountaineering and journalism circles when expedition members were "embargoed" from releasing details of the trip before publication of the story by National Geographic.
classic.mountainzone.com /news/maud.html   (665 words)

  
 The Summit Journal: 2005-2006 Antarctica News   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Exploration and unclimbed peaks in Queen Maud Land
American climber, Mike Libecki, leaves for his 2-month solo expedition in Antarctica to attempt the first solo ascent of the unclimbed walls, towers, and spires near Queen Maud Land.
The project is attempting unclimbed peaks in Queen Maud land in the Mjulig-Hofman and Orvin mountains near the Lazarevskaja research station.
www.summitjournal.com /articles/news/antarctic_112005.html   (377 words)

  
 Britain's Secret War in Antarctica - Part 3
On 14 January 1939, Norway formalized its claim to Queen Maud Land in Antarctica, its course of action forced on it by the imminent German discoveries.
Britain had helped liberate Norway and, as 1945 was drawing to a close, was in the process of "liberating" Queen Maud Land (the new atlas of the post-war world no longer recognized Neuschwabenland).
Britain and Norway knew that the area of Queen Maud Land which the Nazis had utilized would be vastly different from that which was mapped in the 1930s and early 1940s.
www.bibliotecapleyades.net /tierra_hueca/esp_tierra_hueca_16.htm   (5455 words)

  
 Sr–Nd isotopic composition of lamprophyre dykes from Queen MaudLand, East Antarctica
Alkali basaltic-lamprophyric dykes intrude Precambrian gneisses in the Schirmacher Oasis, Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica.
Paleozoic dykes of alkaline affinities intrude high-grade gneiss terrain.
To understand the chronology of the geological events in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica, Rb–Sr isotopic studies were carried out on different types of rocks.
www.ias.ac.in /currsci/dec251999/articles26.htm   (1568 words)

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