Dungane
| Dungane | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Sør Rondane Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 54 ′ S , 24 ° 33 ′ E | |
The Dungane (Norwegian for Halden ) are two mountains up to 2,870 m high in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . They tower 15 km west of Dufekfjellet in the Sør Rondane mountains .
Norwegian cartographers, who also used the descriptive naming, mapped it in 1957 using aerial photographs taken during Operation Highjump (1946–1947) carried out by the United States Navy .
Web links
- Dungane peaks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dungane Peaks on geographic.org (English)