Corner horns

Corner horns
The basin In the bowl with the corner horns (middle right)
location	Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica
part of	Alexander von Humboldt Mountains in the Wohlthatmassiv
Coordinates	71 ° 31 ′  S , 11 ° 27 ′  E Coordinates: 71 ° 31 ′  S , 11 ° 27 ′  E

The Eckhorns are a mountain range with about six peaks in the Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It forms the north wall of the valley basin In der Schüssel in the north-central part of the Alexander von Humboldt Mountains in the Wohlthat massif .

The mountain range was discovered and named descriptively during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . In Norway it is known under the name Hjørnehorna .

See also

• List of the geographical objects named by the German Antarctic Expedition 1938/39

Web links

• Corner horns peaks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Eckhörner Peaks on geographic.org (English)