Gjertsen Promontory
| Gjertsen Promontory | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Maud Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 86 ° 34 ′ S , 147 ° 30 ′ W | |
The Gjertsen Promontory is a low, pointed promontory in the west Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . It rises at the end of a north-extending rock spur of Mount Gjertsen in the La Gorce Mountains of Queen Maud Mountains .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1964. Scientists from a campaign of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition carried out from 1969 to 1970 named it after the name of Mount Gjertsen. Its namesake is Hjalmar Fredrik Gjertsen (1885-1958), second mate on board the Fram in the South Pole expedition (1910-1912) of the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen and ice pilot in the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd .
Web links
- Gjertsen Promontory in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gjertsen Promontory on geographic.org (English)