Cottontop
| Cottontop | ||
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| height | 2170 m | |
| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Tottanfjella in Heimefrontfjella | |
| Coordinates | 75 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ S , 12 ° 41 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Cotton Toppen is a 2,170 m high mountain in the Heimefrontfjella the East Antarctic Queen Maud Lands . It rises up in Tottanfjella .
Scientists at the Norwegian Polar Institute named it in 1967 after the geodesist John Philip Douglas Cotton (* 1942) from the British Antarctic Survey , who worked at Halley Station in the Antarctic winters of 1964 and 1965 .
literature
- John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 361 (English)
Web links
- Cottontop in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
- Cottontoppen in the directory of the Norwegian Polar Institute (English)