Domen Butte () is a snow-topped
butte
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In geomorphology, a butte () is an isolated hill with steep, often vertical sides and a small, relatively flat top; buttes are smaller landforms than mesas, plateaus, and tablelands. The word ''butte'' comes from a French word mea ...
with steep rock sides, just southwest of
Hogskavlen Mountain in the
Borg Massif
Borg Massif is a mountain massif, about long and with summits above , situated along the northwest side of the Penck Trough in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica. The tallest peak, at , is Hogsaetet Mountain. The parallel, ice-filled Raudberg V ...
of
Queen Maud Land
Queen Maud Land ( no, Dronning Maud Land) is a roughly region of Antarctica claimed by Norway as a dependent territory. It borders the claimed British Antarctic Territory 20° west and the Australian Antarctic Territory 45° east. In addit ...
. It was mapped by Norwegian cartographers from surveys and air photos by the
Norwegian–British–Swedish Antarctic Expedition
The Norwegian–British–Swedish Antarctic Expedition (also known as NBSX or NBSAE) (1949–1952) was the first Antarctica expedition involving an international team of scientist
A scientist is a person who conducts Scientific method, scienti ...
(1949–52) and named Domen (the dome).
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Buttes of Antarctica
Landforms of Queen Maud Land
Princess Martha Coast
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