Holstnuten
| Holstnuten | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Kottasberge in Heimefrontfjella | |
| Coordinates | 74 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ S , 9 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Holstnuten is a mountain peak in the Heimefrontfjella of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In the Kottas Mountains it rises southwest of the Lütkennupen .
Scientists at the Norwegian Polar Institute named him after the quay Christian Middelthon Holst (1913-1945), a leader of the resistance movement in Lillehammer against the German occupation of Norway in World War II , who on June 27, 1945 in Stockholm probably remained from there employees of the foreign secret service of the third Reich was murdered.
literature
- John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 748 (English)