Humboldtgraben
| Humboldtgraben | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Well-being, massive | |
| Geographical location | 71 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ S , 11 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Humboldt Graben is with glacial ice Stuffed and 30 km long valley in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It lies north-south between the Alexander von Humboldt Mountains and the Petermann range in the Wohlthat massif .
The valley was discovered and named during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . It is named after the German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859).
See also
Web links
- Humboldt digging in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Humboldt Graben on geographic.org (English)