Aurnupen
| Aurnupen | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Ahlmannryggen | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 59 ′ 0 ″ S , 3 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Aurnupen ( Norwegian for rubble tip is) a mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land , which through a rocky terrain is marked on the northwest flank. It rises 1.5 km east of Flårjuven in Ahlmannryggen .
Norwegian cartographers named the mountain descriptively and mapped it on the basis of aerial photographs and measurements by the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952).
Web links
- Aurnupen Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Aurnupen Peak on geographic.org (English)