Grabenhorn

Grabenhorn
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height	2815  m
location	Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Petermann chains in the Wohlthatmassiv
Coordinates	71 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  S , 12 ° 2 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 71 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  S , 12 ° 2 ′ 0 ″  E
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Grabenhorn ( Norwegian Søkkhornet ) is a 2815  m high mountain with a horn or cone-shaped peak in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It rises south of the Zwieselberg in the central part of the Pieckrücken on the eastern flank of the Humboldtgraben in the Petermann chain of the Wohlthat massif .

The mountain was discovered and named descriptively based on the name of the Humboldt Trench during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher .

See also

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

Web links

• Digging Horn in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Graben Horn on geographic.org (English)