Rock island

Rock island
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height	1895 m
location	Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Western Petermann chain in the Wohlthatmassiv
Coordinates	71 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ S , 12 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 71 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ S , 12 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ E

The rock island ( Norwegian Hansenhovden , English Mount Hansen ) is a 1895 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It rises north of Kåreseten and immediately northwest of Daykovaya Peak at the northern end of the western Petermann chain in the Wohlthat massif .

The mountain was discovered, mapped and descriptively named during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . A new mapping based on aerial photographs and surveys was carried out during the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960). The Norwegian name is named after Kåre J. Hansen, meteorologist for the Norwegian expedition.

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