Tverrbrekka
| Tverrbrekka | |||
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| Compass direction | west | east | |
| Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |||
| Mountains | Sverdrupfjella | ||
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ S , 1 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ E | ||
Tverrbrekka ( Norwegian for transverse slope ) is a mountain pass in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . It is located in the Sverdrupfjella between the Vendeholten mountain and the Tverrveggen mountain range .
Norwegian cartographers named the passport and mapped it on the basis of surveys and aerial photographs of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952) and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960).
Web links
- Tverrbrekka pass the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tverrbrekka Pass on geographic.org (English)