Kvithovden
| Kvithovden | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sverdrupfjella | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ S , 0 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Kvithovden ( Norwegian for White Main is) a mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In Sverdrupfjella it rises at the northern end of Kvitkjølen .
The mountain was photographed from the air during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . Norwegian cartographers named it descriptively after its appearance and mapped it on the basis of surveys and aerial photographs of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952) and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960).
Web links
- Kvithovden peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kvithovden Peak on geographic.org (English)