Fokknuten
| Fokknuten | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sør Rondane | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ S , 23 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Fokknuten (Norwegian for spray tip ) is a small nunatak in Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica . It rises 6 km east of the Perlebandet mountain range in the Sør Rondane Mountains .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named it, mapped it in 1957 using aerial photographs taken during the US Operation Highjump (1946–1947).
Web links
- Fokknuten Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fokknuten Nunatak on geographic.org (English)