Storkvammen
| Storkvammen | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Alexander von Humboldt Mountains in the Wohlthatmassiv | |
| Geographical location | 71 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ S , 11 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Storkvammen ( Norwegian for Great Saum Valley ) is a mountain basin in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . On the east side of the Alexander von Humboldt Mountains in the Wohlthat massif, it lies between the cliffs of Eidsgavlen and Kvamsgavlen .
The valley 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 using surveys and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960)
Web links
- Storkvammen Cirque in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Storkvammen Cirque on geographic.org (English)