Kvitskarvhalsen
| Kvitskarvhalsen | |||
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| Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |||
| Mountains | Sverdrupfjella | ||
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ S , 0 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ E | ||
Kvitskarvhalsen (Norwegian for Weißbergnacken ) is an icy mountain saddle in Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica . In the Sverdrupfjella it lies between the Krügerberg and the Robinheia .
It was discovered and first 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 Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952) and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960) from 1958 to 1959.
Web links
- Kvitskarvhalsen Saddle in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kvitskarvhalsen Saddle on geographic.org (English)