finlandia, foothills, rock, massif, nautical, miles, long, nautical, miles, wide, rising, about, metres, west, side, sibelius, glacier, situated, northern, alexander, island, antarctica, massif, lies, immediately, south, geode, nunataks, north, handel, piedmon. The Finlandia Foothills 69 56 S 70 9 W 69 933 S 70 150 W 69 933 70 150 are a rock massif 10 nautical miles 19 km long and 3 nautical miles 6 km wide rising to about 1 130 metres 3 700 ft at the west side of Sibelius Glacier situated in northern Alexander Island Antarctica The massif lies immediately south of the Geode Nunataks north of the Handel Ice Piedmont and west of Witches Cauldron They were photographed from the air by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition 1947 48 and mapped from these photographs by D Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey 1960 In association with the glacier they were named after the symphonic poem Finlandia by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius 1 1865 1957 References edit Finlandia Foothills Geographic Names Information System United States Geological Survey United States Department of the Interior Retrieved 23 March 2012 nbsp This article incorporates public domain material from Finlandia Foothills Geographic Names Information System United States Geological Survey nbsp This Alexander Island location article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Finlandia Foothills amp oldid 1100472473, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
