Bulk
| Bulk | ||
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| height | 2220 m | |
| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sør Rondane | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ S , 26 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Bulken (Norwegian for lump ) is a 2220 m high hill in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . It rises 5 km north of the Balchenfjella mountain in the Sør Rondane mountains .
Norwegian cartographers, who also gave this mountain its descriptive name, mapped it in 1957 using aerial photographs taken during the US Operation Highjump (1946–1947).
Web links
- Bulken Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bulken Hill on geographic.org (English)