Alanpiggen
| Alanpiggen | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sverdrupfjella | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ S , 0 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Alanpiggen ( Norwegian ; English Alan Peak ) is a mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It rises on the west side of the entrance to Reecedalen in the southern part of Sverdrupfjella .
The first mapping was carried out using aerial photographs taken during the German Antarctic Expedition (1938–1939). Norwegian cartographers re-mapped using aerial photographs of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (NBSAE, 1949–1952) and the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960) and named the mountain after the British geologist Alan William Reece (1921–1960) , Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey employee and NBSAE participant.
Web links
- Alan Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Alan Peak on geographic.org (English)