Sørskeidet Valley () is an ice-filled valley in
Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest contine ...
. Located north of
Skeidshovden Mountain near the southwest end of the
Wohlthat Mountains
Wohlthat Mountains (german: Wohlthatmassiv) is a large group of associated mountain features consisting of the Humboldt Mountains, Petermann Ranges, and the Gruber Mountains, located immediately east of the Orvin Mountains in Fimbulheimen in the ...
in
Queen Maud Land
Queen Maud Land ( no, Dronning Maud Land) is a roughly region of Antarctica claimed by Norway as a dependent territory. It borders the claimed British Antarctic Territory 20° west and the Australian Antarctic Territory 45° east. In addit ...
, it was first photographed from the air by the
German Antarctic Expedition of 1938–39. It was mapped by Norwegian cartographers from surveys and air photos by the
Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–60) and named ''Sørskeidet''.
References
Valleys of Queen Maud Land
Princess Astrid Coast
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