Ritscher highlands

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Coordinates: 73 ° 0 ′  S , 9 ° 0 ′  W

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The Ritscher Highlands is an ice-covered plateau in the west of Queen Maud Land in Antarctica, which is claimed by Norway . The German Antarctic Expedition 1938/39 under captain Alfred Ritscher explored this area through aerial photography (photogrammetric recordings). The name Ritscherflya is used on the Norwegian topographic maps of Queen Maud Land .

location

The Ritscher highlands are located west of the Jutulstraumen glacier in the hinterland of the Princess Martha Coast in a partly ice-free region. Mountain ranges protruding from the inland ice are the Kraulberge ( Norwegian Vestfjella ) in the west, the Heimefrontfjella in the southwest, Kirwanveggen in the south and the Ahlmann ridge and the Borg massif in the central part .

history

On January 20, 1939, the Ritscher highlands were discovered during the first of a total of seven photo flights. Up until then, almost only the peripheral areas in the Atlantic sector of the Antarctic were known to have been made by whalers . In 1952, the Federal Republic of Germany exercised the right to geographical naming in Neuschwabenland associated with the discovery . In the Antarctic Treaty of December 1, 1959 on the peaceful use of the Antarctic, the territorial claims remained unaffected. The Bouvet sector is called Queen Maud Land and the names Neuschwabenland, Schirmacher Oase , Ritscherhochland, Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains and Wohlthatmassiv remain.

literature

  • Karstens Brunk: Cartographic work and German naming in Neuschwabenland, Antarctica , Communication No. 175 of the Institute for Applied Geodesy, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISSN  0071-9196
  • Heinz Miller, Hans Oerter: The ANTARKTIS-V expedition with RV "Polarstern" , 1986/87, ISSN  0176-5027 .

Individual evidence

  1. Datasheet of the Australian Antarctic Data Center , accessed October 29, 2014
  2. Bundesanzeiger Volume 4, No. 149, pp. 1–2. (August 5, 1952)
  3. http://www.flaggenlexikon.de/fnorwant.html  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.flaggenlexikon.de