Tverrveggen
| Tverrveggen | ||
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| Highest peak | Tverrnipa ( 2195 m ) | |
| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Paulsenberge in Sverdrupfjella | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 17 ′ S , 1 ° 20 ′ E | |
Tverrveggen ( Norwegian for transverse wall ) is a prominent mountain ridge in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . It extends from the Tverrbrekka mountain pass in the Paulsen Mountains of Sverdrupfjella over a length of 6.5 km in a southerly direction.
The first aerial photos of the formation were taken during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . Norwegian cartographers made the naming and mapped the ridge on the basis of aerial photographs and measurements of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952) and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960).
Web links
- Tverrveggen Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tverrveggen Ridge on geographic.org (English)