Kinntanna
Kinntanna | ||
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height | 2724 m | |
location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
Mountains | Drygalski Mountains in Orvinfjella | |
Coordinates | 71 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ S , 8 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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First ascent | 1994 by Robert Caspersen and Ivar Tollefsen |
The Kinntanna (Norwegian for molar ) is a 2724 m high and pointed mountain in Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica . In the Drygalski Mountains in the Orvinfjella, it rises 1.5 km north of the Holtanna from the eastern part of the Fenriskjeften .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named it descriptively, mapped the mountain on the basis of aerial photographs and measurements of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960).
Web links
- Kinntanna Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kinntanna Peak on geographic.org (English)