Altar (mountain)
| altar | ||
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| height | 2200 m | |
| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Alexander von Humboldt Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ S , 11 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The altar is a 2200 m high mountain with a flattened peak in the Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It rises at the head of the Grautskåla basin immediately west of the Altarduken glacier in the Alexander von Humboldt Mountains .
The mountain was discovered and descriptively named after its resemblance to an altar by the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of the polar explorer Alfred Ritscher .
See also
Web links
- The altar in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- The Altar on geographic.org (English)