Ufsebrotet
| Ufsebrotet | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Otto von Gruber Mountains in the Wohlthatmassiv | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 23 ′ S , 13 ° 17 ′ E | |
Ufsebrotet ist ( Norwegian for Broken Cliff ) is a soaring cliff in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . In the Otto von Gruber Mountains of the Wohlthat massif , it rises 3 km south of the Zimmermannberg .
The cliff 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 descriptively, mapped it on the basis of surveys and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960).
Web links
- Ufsebrotet Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ufsebrotet Bluff on geographic.org (English)