Arnesteinen
| Arnesteinen | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Drygalski Mountains in Orvinfjella | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ S , 8 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Arnesteinen is a nunatak in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica . It is the largest nunatak in the Hemmestadskjera group in the Drygalski Mountains of northern Orvinfjella .
The Nunatak was first recorded on the basis of aerial photographs taken during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . Norwegian cartographers, who also named it, mapped it using aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960). It is named after Arne Hemmestad (* 1920), a mechanic on this research trip.
Web links
- Arne Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Arne Nunatak on geographic.org (English)