Porten (Antarctica)
| Porten | |||
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| Compass direction | west | east | |
| Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |||
| Mountains | Gjelsvikfjella | ||
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ S , 2 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ E | ||
Porten (Norwegian for gate ) is a mountain pass in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . In Gjelsvikfjella it is between Von Essenskarvet and Nupskammen .
The first aerial photographs were taken during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of Alfred Ritscher . Norwegian cartographers gave the pass its name and mapped it based on surveys and aerial photographs of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952) and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960) made between 1958 and 1959 .
Web links
- Porten Pass in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Porten Pass on geographic.org (English)