Vorta (Nunatak)
| Vorta | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sverdrupfjella | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ S , 1 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Vorta ( Norwegian for Wart ) is an isolated nunatak in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . In the Sverdrupfjella it rises about 8 km east of the Brattskarvet .
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 on the basis of 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
- Vorta Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Vorta Nunatak on geographic.org (English)