Christensenkollen

Christensenkollen
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height	1890 m
location	Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Sivorgfjella in Heimefrontfjella
Coordinates	74 ° 35 ′ 30 ″ S , 10 ° 51 ′ 30 ″ W Coordinates: 74 ° 35 ′ 30 ″ S , 10 ° 51 ′ 30 ″ W

The Christensenkollen is a 1,890 m high mountain in the Heimefrontfjella of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It rises between the Cappelenbotnen basin and the Berggravrista ridge in the northern part of Sivorgfjella .

Scientists at the Norwegian Polar Institute named it in 1967 after the Norwegian journalist Christian Arthur Richard Christensen (1906–1967), a leader of the resistance movement against the German occupation of Norway in World War II .

literature

John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 320 (English)