Hovdebrekka
| Hovdebrekka | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Well-being, massive | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 3 ′ S , 11 ° 48 ′ E | |
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Hovdebrekka (Norwegian for hill slope is) a few kilometers long and columns Infused glacier field in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In the Wohlthatmassiv it extends from Skeidshovden in a northerly direction.
The first aerial photographs were taken during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of Alfred Ritscher . Norwegian cartographers, who also named the glacier field, mapped it on the basis of measurements and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960).
Web links
- Hovdebrekka Slope in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hovdebrekka Slope on geographic.org (English)