Skaret (Antarctica)
| Skaret | |||
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| Compass direction | southwest | Northeast | |
| Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |||
| Mountains | Sverdrupfjella | ||
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ S , 0 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ E | ||
Skaret (Norwegian for notch ) is a mountain pass in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . In the Sverdrupfjella it runs on the east side of the Skarsnuten into the Rootshorga .
The first aerial photographs were taken during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . Norwegian cartographers, who also named it descriptively, mapped it based on surveys and aerial photographs of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952) and aerial photographs that were taken between 1958 and 1959 during the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960).
Web links
- Skaret Pass in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Skaret Pass on geographic.org (English)