Portals
| Portals | |||
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| Compass direction | north | south | |
| Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |||
| Mountains | Borg massif | ||
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ S , 3 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ W | ||
Portalen ( Norwegian for portal , passage ) is a mountain pass in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It lies between the Zeugenberg Domen and the Pilarryggen mountain range in the Borg massif .
Norwegian cartographers gave the pass its name and mapped it on the basis of surveys and aerial photographs of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952).
Web links
- Portal Pass in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Portal Pass on geographic.org (English)