Kruberstones

Kruberstones
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location	Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Alexander von Humboldt Mountains , Wohlthatmassiv
Coordinates	71 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ S , 11 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 71 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ S , 11 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ E

The Kruberstein (Norwegian for Kruberstein , Russian Скала Крубера Skala Krubera , English Kruber Rock ) is an isolated rocky outcrop in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . On the west side of the Alexander von Humboldt Mountains of the Wohlthat massif, it rises 5.5 km west-northwest of the Flånuten .

It was discovered and mapped using aerial photographs during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . Norwegian cartographers, who later translated a Russian name for the ledge into Norwegian, mapped it using aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960). Soviet scientists on an Antarctic expedition carried out from 1960 to 1961 mapped it again and named it. It is named after the Soviet geographer Alexander Alexandrowitsch Kruber (1871–1941) from Lomonossow University in Moscow . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names transferred in 1970, the Russian designation into English.

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