Kvassknatten
| Kvassknatten | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Knattebrauta in Sverdrupfjella | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ S , 1 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Kvassknatten ( Norwegian for pointed ledge ) is a nunatak in Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica . He belongs to the Knattebrauta group in Sverdrupfjella .
The first aerial photographs were taken during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . Norwegian cartographers, who also gave it its name, mapped it based on surveys and aerial photographs of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952) and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960) from 1958 to 1959.
Web links
- Kvassknatten Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kvassknatten Nunatak on geographic.org (English)