Brugda
| Brugda | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Gjelsvikfjella | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 5 ′ S , 2 ° 50 ′ E | |
The Brugda ( Norwegian for basking shark ) is a mountain ridge in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . In Gjelsvikfjella , it extends on the southern flank of the Mayr range in an east-southeast direction.
The first aerial photos of the formation were taken during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . Norwegian cartographers, who also named the ridge, carried out a mapping using 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
- Brugda Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Brugda Ridge on geographic.org (English)