Grunehogna
| Grunehogna | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Ahlmannryggen | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 3 ′ S , 2 ° 47 ′ W | |
The Grunehogna ( marmot freely translated from Norwegian ) are a group of nunataks in Queen Maud's East Antarctic land . In the southern part of the Ahlmannryggen they rise 3 km north of the Liljequisthorga .
Norwegian cartographers, who also gave the group its name, mapped it using surveys and aerial photographs of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952) and aerial photographs that were taken between 1958 and 1959 during the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960).
The Grunehogna are namesake for the Grunehogna craton , which was split off as a fragment of the much larger Kaapvaal craton when the Southern Ocean opened.
Web links
- Grunehogna Peaks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Grunehogna Peaks on geographic.org (English)