Sponsorship
| Sponsorship | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Well-being, massive | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 39 ′ S , 11 ° 12 ′ E | |
The Sponskaftet (Norwegian for wooden spoon handle ) is a mountain ridge in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In the Alexander von Humboldt Mountains of the Wohlthat massif , they extend westwards from the altar .
He was discovered and photographed from the air during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . Norwegian cartographers, who also named it, mapped it on the basis of measurements and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960).
Web links
- Sponsored track in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sponsorship track on geographic.org (English)