Gamaleya skirt

Gamaleya skirt
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location	Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Shcherbakov Mountains , Orvinfjella
Coordinates	71 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ S , 10 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 71 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ S , 10 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ E

The Gamaleya Rock ( Russian Скала Гамале́я , Norwegian Gamalejahamaren ) is a rock formation in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . The rock rises 3 km southeast of Smirnov Peak and marks the foothills of a series of rocks east of the Shcherbakov Mountains in the Orvinfjella .

Aerial photographs of the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher were used for the first rough mapping. Norwegian cartographers mapped it on the basis of surveys and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960). Participants in a Soviet Antarctic expedition that lasted from 1960 to 1961 mapped it again and named it after the Russian writer and navigation scientist Platon Jakowlewitsch Gamaleja (1766-1817). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names converted the Russian name into English in 1970.

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