Hesteskoen
| Hesteskoen | ||
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| height | 2350 m | |
| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sør Rondane | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ S , 27 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Hesteskoen (Norwegian for horse's hoof ) is a 2350 m high nunatak in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It rises 6 km north of the Balchenfjella mountain in the Sør Rondane mountains .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named it, mapped it in 1946 using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 , and in 1957 using the same American Operation Highjump (1946–1947). It is named after the shape of the nunatak, which is reminiscent of a horse's hoof .
Web links
- Hesteskoen Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hesteskoen Nunatak on geographic.org (English)