Gagarin Mountains
| Gagarin Mountains (Khrebet Yuriya Gagarina) | |
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| Continent | Antarctica |
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| Region | Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica |
| Part of | East Antarctica Ranges |
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| - coordinates | 71°57′00″S 09°23′00″E / 71.95°S 9.3833333°E |
 Map depicting the territorial extent of Queen Maud Land
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The Gagarin Mountains (Russian: Khrebet Yuriya Gagarina; Norwegian: Gagarinfjella) are a linear group of mountains, trending in a N-S direction for 10 miles between the Kurze Mountains and the Conrad Mountains of the Orvin Mountains in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica.
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[edit] Discovery and naming
The Gagarin Mountains were mapped by cartograpers of the Norwegian Polar Institute, using aerial photographs and surveys taken by the Sixth Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in 1956-60. They were remapped from surveys and air photos by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (SovAE), 1960–61, and named for Soviet astronaut Yuriy A. Gagarin.[1]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
"Gagarin Mountains". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:5:::NO::P5_ANTAR_ID:5418. Retrieved 31 May 2010.
[edit] External links
- United States Geological Survey, Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
- Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Gagarin Mountains" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).
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