Jøkulkyrkja
| Jøkulkyrkja | ||
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 Jøkulkyrkja (right) from the east |
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| height | 3148 m | |
| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ S , 6 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| First ascent | 1994 | |
The Jøkulkyrkja ( f , also m ; Norwegian for glacier church ) is at 3148 m the highest mountain of the Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains in the East Antarctic New Swabia and thus at the same time the highest elevation in the Queen Maud Land . Its prominent and icecapped summit is called Jøkulhest (Norwegian for glacier horse ).
Norwegian cartographers , who also named the mountain, mapped it using aerial photographs and measurements made by the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960).
The first ascent was made on January 10, 1994 by a 13-person expedition led by Ivar Tollefsen .
Russian scientists verorteten under coordinates that indicate the east side of the Jøkulkyrkja Mountain, a solid and named it after the Soviet oceanographic Yakov Gakkel (1901-1965) as Yakov-Gakkel solid ( Russian Массив Якова Гаккеля Massiw Jakowa Gakkelja ; English transcription massif Jakova Gakkelja ).
literature
- Ivar Erik Tollefsen: Queen Maud Land - Antarctica . Mortensen, Oslo 1994, ISBN 82-527-1250-9 .
Web links
- Jøkulkyrkja in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
- Jøkulkyrkja Mountain in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
- Jøkulkyrkja on an aerial photo from January 31, 1939 of the German Antarctic Expedition 1938/39 (PDF, geographical names added later)
Individual evidence
- ^ Józef Nyka: Jøkulkyrkia, Queen Maud Land. In: American Alpine Journal , Volume 69, No. 37, 1995, p. 225.
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 802 (English).
- ↑ Jakova Gakkelja, massif in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English, accessed on October 9, 2019).