Drabants
| Drabants | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Maudheimvidda | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ S , 5 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Drabanten (Norwegian for Trabant ) is an isolated nunatak in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . It rises around 16 km west of the Tunga rock spur immediately north of Kirwanveggen in Maudheimvidda .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named him, mapped the formation based on surveys and aerial photographs of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952) and the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960).
Web links
- Drabanten Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Drabanten Nunatak on geographic.org (English)