Gavlen
| Gavlen | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Sverdrupfjella | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 39 ′ S , 0 ° 27 ′ E | |
The Gavlen ( English Gavlen Ridge ) is a mountain range in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It represents the southern branch of the Rootshorga in the southern part of the Sverdrupfjella .
The first aerial photographs were taken during the German Antarctic Expedition (1938–1939). Norwegian cartographers mapped it using geodetic surveys and aerial photographs of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (NBSAE, 1949–1952) and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960). Its descriptive Norwegian name means ' gable '.
Web links
- Gavlen Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gavlen Ridge on geographic.org (English)