Aerodromnaya Hill
| Aerodromnaya Hill | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ S , 11 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Aerodromnaya Hill ( Russian Гора Аэродромная Gora Aerodromnaja , German ' Flugplatzberg ' ) is an isolated and rocky hill in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It rises 1.5 km south of the Schirmacher Oasis .
Participants in the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher took first aerial photographs and carried out rough mapping. Soviet scientists re-mapped the ledge in 1961 and renamed it. The background to this name is that an airfield was created in the vicinity of the hill to supply the Novolasarewskaya station . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names transferred the Russian name in 1970 in an adapted partial translation into English.
Web links
- Aerodromnaya Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Aerodromnaya Hill on geographic.org (English)