Eidsgavlen
| Eidsgavlen | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Alexander von Humboldt Mountains in the Wohlthatmassiv | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 41 ′ S , 11 ° 42 ′ E | |
Eidsgavlen is a cliff in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . In the Alexander von Humboldt Mountains of the Wohlthat massif , it rises 1.5 km south of the Eidshaugane .
The cliff was discovered and photographed from the air during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . Surveys and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960) were used to map it. Its Norwegian name means something like " isthmus gable ".
Web links
- Eidsgavlen Cliff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Eidsgavlen Cliff on geographic.org (English)