Tvora
| Tvora | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sverdrupfjella | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ S , 0 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Tvora (Norwegian for two ridges ) is a mountain with two north- trending rock spurs in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In Sverdrupfjella, it rises 5 km east of Straumsvola .
The first aerial photographs were taken 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 Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952) and aerial photographs from 1958 to 1959 of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960).
Web links
- Tvora in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tvora on geographic.org (English)