Sverdrupfjella
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 20 ′ S , 1 ° 0 ′ W | |
The Sverdrupfjella is an approximately 80 km long mountain range in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It extends west of Gjelsvikfjella .
The first aerial photographs were taken during the German Antarctic Expedition (1938–1939). Norwegian cartographers mapped them on the basis of measurements and aerial photographs of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952) and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960). It is named after the Norwegian oceanographer Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (1888–1957), chairman of the Norwegian committee of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition.
Web links
- Sverdrup Mountains in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sverdrup Mountains on geographic.org (English)