Inuitoppen
| Inuitoppen | ||
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| height | 1308 m | |
| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sør Rondane | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 58 ′ 12 ″ S , 27 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Inuitoppen ( Norwegian ; Japanese い ぬ い 山 Inui Yama , German 'Northwestern Mountain' ) is a 1308 m high summit of the Sør Rondane in Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica . It rises on the northwestern foothills of the Gropeheia .
Japanese scientists took aerial photographs from 1981 to 1982 and 1987 , and took surveys between 1987 and 1988. Scientists from the Norwegian Polar Institute translated the Japanese name into a partial translation into Norwegian in 1990.
Web links
- Inuitoppen in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
- Inuitoppen in the directory of the Norwegian Polar Institute (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 788 (English).