Henriksenskjera
| Henriksenskjera | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Orvinfjella | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 30 ′ S , 9 ° 0 ′ E | |
The Henriksenskjera are a group of scattered nunatakkers in Queen Maud's East Antarctica . In the Orvinfjella they rise 16 km north of the Kurzegebirge .
They were discovered and photographed from the air during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . Norwegian cartographers, who also named them, mapped them on the basis of aerial photographs and measurements made by the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960). It is named after Hans-Martin Henriksen, meteorological assistant on the latter research trip between 1956 and 1958.
Web links
- Henriksen Nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Henriksen Nunataks on geographic.org (English)