Gray renna
| Gray renna (at the overflow) | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Alexander von Humboldt Mountains in the Wohlthatmassiv | |
| Geographical location | 71 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ S , 11 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Grautrenna ( Norwegian for oat groats rinne ) is a valley in Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica . In the Alexander von Humboldt Mountains of the Wohlthat massif , it is the northernmost valley in the Gorki ridge , the east face of the valley In der Schüssel .
Scientists from the Norwegian Polar Institute named the valley in 1969. In the investigation reports of the German Antarctic Expedition 1938/39 under the direction of polar researcher Alfred Ritscher , the object is described as a mountain pass under the name Am Überlauf .
literature
- John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 656 (English).
Web links
- Grautrenna in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
- Gray tag in the directory of the Norwegian Polar Institute (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Karsten Brunk: Cartographic work and German naming in Neuschwabenland, Antarctica. Communication No. 175 of the Institute for Applied Geodesy (Dept. II of the German Geodetic Research Institute), publishing house of the Institute for Applied Geodesy, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISSN 0071-9196, p. 36 (PDF, 328 KB). Retrieved August 28, 2019.
- ^ Directory of German geographic names of the Antarctic. Version 2.14, June 13, 2014, Standing Committee on Geographical Names . Retrieved August 28, 2019.