Popping (mountain)

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height	1480  m
location	Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Borg massif
Coordinates	72 ° 17 ′ 0 ″  S , 3 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 72 ° 17 ′ 0 ″  S , 3 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  W

Knallen ( Norwegian for explosion ) is a 1480  m high and rocky mountain in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . It rises 3 km west of the Nunatak pyramids on the east side of the head end of the Schytt glacier and on the north side of the Borg massif .

Norwegian cartographers, who also named it descriptively, carried out a mapping based on aerial photographs and measurements of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952).

Web links

• Popping peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Pop Peak on geographic.org