Gagarin Mountains
| Gagarin Mountains | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Orvinfjella | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 53 ′ S , 8 ° 55 ′ E | |
The Gagarin Mountains ( Russian Хребет Юрия Гагарина , Norwegian Kurzfjella ) is a mountain range in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . As part of the Orvinfjella , it extends over a length of 16 km between the short and the Conrad mountains .
Norwegian cartographers mapped the formation based on aerial photographs and measurements of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960). A new mapping based on aerial photographs and measurements was carried out during a Soviet Antarctic expedition carried out in 1960 and 1961. It is named after Juri Gagarin (1934–1968), the first person in space .
Web links
- Gagarin Mountains in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gagarin Mountains on geographic.org (English)