Gangbrekka
| Gangbrekka | |||
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| Compass direction | southeast | Northwest | |
| Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |||
| Mountains | Sverdrupfjella | ||
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ S , 0 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ W | ||
Gangbrekka (Norwegian for passageway ) is a mountain pass in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . In Sverdrupfjella it runs between the Jutulrøra mountain and the Brekkerista ridge .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named it descriptively, mapped it on the basis of surveys and aerial photographs of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952) and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960).
Web links
- Gangbrekka Pass in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gangbrekka Pass on geographic.org (English)