The Løken Moraines () are a line of north–south trending moraines, about long, lying from inland from the Windmill Islands off

Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest cont ...

, just east of the bases of

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, Bailey and

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Peninsulas. The moraines were first mapped from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump (1946–47) and

Operation Windmill Operation Windmill (OpWml) was the United States Navy's Second Antarctica Developments Project, an exploration and training mission to Antarctica in 1947–1948. This operation was a follow-up to the First Antarctica Development Project known as O ...

(1947–48), and were named by Carl R. Eklund for Olav Løken, a Norwegian glaciologist who was a member of the

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party, 1957.

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Moraines of Antarctica Landforms of Wilkes Land {{WilkesLand-geo-stub