Rootshorga
| Rootshorga | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Sverdrupfjella | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 37 ′ S , 0 ° 27 ′ E | |
The Rootshorga ( English Roots Heights ) are a mountain range in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In Sverdrupfjella they separate the Reecedalen from the Skarsdalen .
The first aerial photographs were taken during the German Antarctic Expedition (1938–1939). Norwegian cartographers mapped them using geodetic surveys and aerial photographs of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (NBSAE, 1949–1952) and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960). Namesake is Ernest Frederick Roots (* 1923), Canadian chief geologist of the NBSAE.
Web links
- Roots Heights in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Roots Heights on geographic.org (English)