Russian Gap
| Russian Gap | |||
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| Compass direction | Northwest ( Bongrain-Piedmont Glacier ) | Southeast ( Palestrina Glacier ) | |
| Alexander I Island ( West Antarctica ) | |||
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| Coordinates | 69 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ S , 71 ° 13 ′ 0 ″ W | ||
Russian Gap (English for Russian Gap ) is a mountain breach with north-south orientation in the north of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . It separates the Havre Mountains from the Rouen Mountains and leads from the Bongrain-Piedmont Glacier to the head end of the Palestrina Glacier .
The British geographer Derek Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960 carried out a detailed mapping using aerial photographs taken during the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the breach in 1961 after the participants of the first Russian Antarctic expedition (1819-1821) led by the German-Baltic seafarer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen , who first sighted them in 1821.
Web links
- Russian Gap in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Russian Gap on geographic.org (English)