Bakhallet
| Bakhallet | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Gjelsvikfjella | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ S , 2 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Bakhallet ( Norwegian for back wall ) is an icy steep slope in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It lies between the Sauterriegel and the Brugda ridge in Gjelsvikfjella .
The first aerial photographs of the steep slope were taken during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . Norwegian cartographers, who also named it, carried out a mapping based on aerial photographs and surveys of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952) and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960).
Web links
- Bakhallet Slope in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bakhallet Slope on geographic.org (English)