Brattnipane
| Brattnipane | ||
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| Highest peak | Nipehovden ( 2361 m ) | |
| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Sør Rondane Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 54 ′ S , 24 ° 33 ′ E | |
The Brattnipane (Norwegian for Steep Peaks ) are a group of mountain peaks in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . They rise 15 km northwest of Mefjell in the Sør Rondane mountains .
Norwegian cartographers, who also made the descriptive naming, mapped it in 1957 using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 and during Operation Highjump (1946–1947) carried out by the United States Navy .
Web links
- Brattnipane peaks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Brattnipane Peaks on geographic.org (English)