Vestskotet
| Vestskotet | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Neumayer steep wall in the Kirwanveggen | |
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| Coordinates | 73 ° 13 ′ S , 2 ° 9 ′ W | |
The Vestskotet ( Norwegian for West Schott ) is a cliff in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . It rises south of Årmålsryggen at the western end of the Neumayer steep wall in Kirwanveggen .
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 the cliff using surveys and aerial photographs of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952) and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960) from 1958 to 1959.
Web links
- Vestskotet Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Vestskotet Bluff on geographic.org (English)