Devold grooves
| Devold grooves | ||
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| height | 3280 m | |
| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sør Rondane | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ S , 26 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Devoldnuten is a 3280 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In the mountains of Sør Rondane it rises between the Kjelbotnnuten and the Pukkelen near the head of the Byrdbreen .
Norwegian cartographers, who also gave this mountain its name, mapped it in 1957 using aerial photographs taken during the US Operation Highjump (1946–1947). It is named after the Norwegian polar explorer Hallvard Ophus Devold (1898–1957), who explored the Princess Ragnhild Coast by dog sled in 1933 together with Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen and Olav Kornelius Kjelbotn (1898–1966) .
Web links
- Devold peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Devold Peak on geographic.org (English)