E-stones
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Shcherbakov Mountains , Orvinfjella | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ S , 10 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Ekesteinen (Norwegian for spoke stone ) is an isolated rock formation in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . At the eastern end of the Shcherbakov Mountains in the Orvinfjella it rises 5.5 km southeast of the Smirnov Peak .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named it in 1967, mapped the rock using surveys and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960).
Web links
- Ekesteinen Rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ekesteinen Rock on geographic.org (English)