Høgfonna

Høgfonna
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height	2579 m
location	Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Borg massif
Coordinates	72 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ S , 3 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 72 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ S , 3 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ W.

The Høgfonna is a 2,579 m high mountain in the Borg Massif on the Maudheimvidda in East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . With a flat, snow-covered summit and bare rocky slopes, it rises 5 km southeast of Høgskavlen .

Norwegian cartographers mapped the mountain using geodetic surveys and aerial photographs of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952). The Norwegian name means something like "high snow field".

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