Krakken (Wohlthatmassiv)
| Krakken | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Western Petermann chain in the Wohlthatmassiv | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ S , 12 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Krakken (Norwegian for stool ) is a mountain in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . It rises 1.5 km north of the Sandset and immediately northwest of Gneysovaya Peak in the western Petermann chain of the Wohlthat massif .
It was discovered and mapped using aerial photographs during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . Further mapping was carried out on the basis of aerial photographs and measurements by the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960), whose participants also carried out the descriptive naming.
Web links
- Krakken Mountain in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Krakken Mountain on geographic.org (English)