Himi Yama
| Himi Yama | ||
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| height | 142.5 m | |
| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Scallions | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ S , 39 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Himi Yama (from Japanese ひ み 山 'glacier hill ' ) is a 142.5 m high and rounded hill on the Prince Harald coast of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It rises on the southeastern foothills of the Skallen group of hills .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs from the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . Japanese scientists, who also named it, carried out a more precise mapping based on aerial photographs and measurements of a Japanese Antarctic expedition from 1969.
Web links
- Himi Yama in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)