Knuckle

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Knuckle
height 1230  m
location Enderbyland , East Antarctica
Mountains Napier Mountains
Coordinates 66 ° 23 '31 "  S , 53 ° 13' 27"  E Coordinates: 66 ° 23 '31 "  S , 53 ° 13' 27"  E
Knausen (Antarctica)
Knuckle

The Knausen (Norwegian for rock ) is a 1,230  m high mountain in the East Antarctic Enderbyland . In the Napier Mountains, it rises 9 km northwest of Armstrong Peak .

Norwegian cartographers, who also named it, mapped it in 1946 using aerial photographs taken as part of the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) accepted this designation without change on July 31, 1972.

literature

  • Knausen in the Gazetteer of the Australian Antarctic Data Center (English)