Prince Olaf shore on a map of Antarctica .
The coast of Prince Olav ( English Prince Olav Coast ; Norwegian. Kronprins Olav Kyst ) - part of the coast of the Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica , between the Lutz Holm bays in the west and Alasheeva in the east.
The coast is about 250 km long. It is the edge of the continental ice sheet with small rock outcrops on the shore. The height of the ice sheet 50 km from the coast reaches 1,500 m.
The coast was discovered in 1930 by the Norwegian expedition of Hjalmar Rieser-Larsen and named after the Norwegian prince , later King of Norway Olav V.
Sources
- Ulafa of the Prince's Coast // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978. .
- Prince Ulaf // Dictionary of modern geographical names / Rus. geo about . Mosk. Centre; Under the total. ed. Acad. V.M. Kotlyakova . Institute of Geography RAS . - Yekaterinburg: U-Factoria, 2006 ..