Kvamsgavlen
| Kvamsgavlen | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Alexander von Humboldt Mountains in the Wohlthatmassiv | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 46 ′ S , 11 ° 50 ′ E | |
Kvamsgavlen (Norwegian for Saumtalgibel ) is a cliff in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . On the east side of the Alexander von Humboldt Mountains in the Wohlthat massif , it rises to the east at the southeast corner of the Storkvammen basin .
The cliff was discovered and photographed from the air during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . Norwegian cartographers, who also named it, mapped it on the basis of surveys and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960).
Web links
- Kvamsgavlen Cliff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kvamsgavlen Cliff on geographic.org (English)