tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6175915728614917733.post-38884101376150551792007-07-08T10:30:00.001+01:002008-03-07T17:59:19.785+01:002008-03-07T17:59:19.785+01:00<span style="font-weight: bold;">Queen Maud Land is the part of Antarctica claimed by Norway, and is regulated through the Antarctic Treaty System. Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer who led the first expedition to set foot on the South Pole named it after the Queen of Norway at that time (1911).</span><br /><br />There are a number of research stations located in Queen Maud Land, among them two from Norway (Troll and Tor). Since 1948 the Norwegian Polar Institute, a part of the Norwegian Ministry of the Environment has been assigned the administration of Dronning Maud Land.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.norwegianmoose.com/uploaded_images/queen_maud-733872.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.norwegianmoose.com/uploaded_images/queen_maud-733870.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_oKSTi9lYuzk/R9F0EhtG-7I/AAAAAAAAAEU/YBI5dOtOkIc/s1600-h/queen_maud.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_oKSTi9lYuzk/R9F0EhtG-7I/AAAAAAAAAEU/YBI5dOtOkIc/s320/queen_maud.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175045067941280690" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Princess Maud of Wales (Maud Charlotte Mary Victoria; later Queen Maud of Norway; 26 November 1869 – 20 November 1938) 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. She was the first queen consort of Norway since 1319 who was not also queen consort of Denmark or Sweden.<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.norwegianmoose.com/uploaded_images/Roald_Amundsen-738602.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.norwegianmoose.com/uploaded_images/Roald_Amundsen-738601.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_oKSTi9lYuzk/R9F0PRtG-8I/AAAAAAAAAEc/xonSD23AYbI/s1600-h/Roald_Amundsen.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_oKSTi9lYuzk/R9F0PRtG-8I/AAAAAAAAAEc/xonSD23AYbI/s320/Roald_Amundsen.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175045252624874434" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (July 16, 1872 – c. June 18, 1928) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He led the first successful Antarctic expedition to the South Pole between 1910 and 1912. He disappeared in June 1928 while taking part in a rescue mission. With Douglas Mawson, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, Amundsen was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Link: <a href="http://npiweb.npolar.no/">Norwegian Polar Institute</a></span><br /></span>NorwegianMoosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15879206853013582078noreply@blogger.com