Brattskarvbrekka
| Brattskarvbrekka | |||
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| Compass direction | east | west | |
| Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |||
| Mountains | Sverdrupfjella | ||
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ S , 1 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ E | ||
Brattskarvbrekka ( Norwegian for Steep Mountain Climb ) is a mountain pass in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . In Sverdrupfjella it runs between the Brattskarvet and Vendeholten mountains .
The pass was photographed for the first time from the air by participants in the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . Norwegian cartographers, who also named it, mapped it on the basis of measurements and aerial photographs of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952).
Web links
- Brattskarvbrekka pass the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Brattskarvbrekka Pass on geographic.org (English)