Heiskanen Knoll

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Coordinates: 67 ° 42 ′  S , 8 ° 41 ′  W

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The Heiskanen Knoll is a deep sea mountain in the Haakon VII Sea off the Princess Martha coast of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land .

The formation was named in 1997 at the suggestion of the surveyor and glaciologist Heinrich Hinze from the Alfred Wegener Institute . It is named after the Finnish geodesist Veikko Heiskanen (1895–1971).

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