Helland-Hansen shoulder
| Helland-Hansen shoulder | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 85 ° 26 ′ S , 168 ° 10 ′ W | |
The Helland-Hansen Shoulder is a mainly icy mountain ridge in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains it extends from the western part of Mount Fridtjof Nansen in a southerly direction and towers over the north side of the head end of the Axel-Heiberg-Glacier .
The Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen discovered and named it in 1911 during his South Pole expedition (1910–1912). It is named after the Norwegian oceanographer Bjørn Helland-Hansen (1877–1957).
Web links
- Helland-Hansen Shoulder in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Helland-Hansen Shoulder on geographic.org (English)