Ekho Mountain
| Ekho Mountain | ||
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| height | 1690 m | |
| location | Queen Maud Land , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Lomonosov Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ S , 15 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Ekho Mountain ( English ; Russian Гора Эхо Gora Echo , German ' Echoberg ' ) is a 1690 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It rises 5 km southwest of the outpost in the Lomonossow Mountains .
The mountain was discovered and mapped using aerial photographs during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . Norwegian cartographers carried out a new mapping based on aerial photographs and surveys of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960). The name goes back to a Soviet Antarctic expedition from 1960 to 1961, which the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names translated into English in 1970. Due to the similar spelling, there is a risk of confusion with Echo Mountain on Coronation Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands.
Web links
- Ekho Mountain in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ekho Mountain on geographic.org (English)