Klotoppen
| Klotoppen | ||
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| height | 1909 m | |
| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sør Rondane | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ S , 23 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Klotoppen ( Norwegian for claw peak , Japanese 鷹 の 爪 峰 Takano-tume-mine , German ' Falkenfanggipfel ' ) is a 1909 m high mountain in the center of Sør Rondane in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It forms the northwestern branch of Svindlandfjellet on Walnumfjella .
Japanese scientists took aerial photographs between 1981 and 1982 and 1986, and carried out surveys from 1985 to 1986 . In 1988, they named it descriptively after its shape. Scientists at the Norwegian Polar Institute translated this name into Norwegian in 1989.
Web links
- Klotoppen in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
- Klotoppen in the directory of the Norwegian Polar Institute (English)