Deildegasten
| Deildegasten | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Eastern Petermann chain in the Wohlthatmassiv | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 29 ′ S , 12 ° 42 ′ E | |
The Deildegasten ( Norwegian for Grenzgeist ) is an 8 km long mountain ridge in the Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It rises directly south of Deildedalen in the eastern Petermann chain of the Wohlthat massif .
It was discovered and mapped during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . Participants in the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960) carried out a new mapping based on their own measurements and with the help of aerial photographs and gave the formation its name. Naming background is a spirit from the Norwegian world of legends, which illegally changes the division of property by laying boundary stones.
Web links
- Deildegasten Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Deildegasten Ridge on geographic.org (English)