Isfossnipa
| Isfossnipa | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Kirwanveggen | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ S , 1 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Isfossnipa ( Norwegian for Eisfallspitze is) a mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In the Kirwanveggen it rises 3 km southeast of the Austvorren from the Neumayer steep face .
The first aerial photographs were taken during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of Alfred Ritscher . Norwegian cartographers, who also named it, mapped the mountain using surveys and aerial photographs of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952) and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960) created between 1958 and 1959 .
Web links
- Isfossnipa Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Isfossnipa Peak on geographic.org (English)