Vestvorren
| Vestvorren | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Kirwanveggen in Maudheimvidda | |
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| Coordinates | 73 ° 6 ′ S , 1 ° 53 ′ W | |
The Vestvorren ( Norwegian for Weststeg ) is the western of two neighboring mountain ridges , which extend from the Neumayer steep face in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land in a northerly direction. The other is the Austvorren .
Aerial photos were taken during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . Norwegian cartographers gave the formation its descriptive name and mapped it on the basis of measurements 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
- Vestvorren Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Vestvorren Ridge on geographic.org (English)