Kvithø
| Kvithø | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sverdrupfjella | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ S , 1 ° 13 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Kvithø ( Norwegian for White height is) an isolated mountaintop in East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It rises from the inland ice 11 km southeast of the Kvitkjølen ridge in Sverdrupfjella .
The first aerial photographs of this formation were taken during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . Norwegian cartographers named the mountain descriptively and mapped it on the basis of aerial photographs and surveys of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952) and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960).
Web links
- Kvithø peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kvithø Peak on geographic.org (English)