Lundström Knoll

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Lundström Knoll
height 1400  m
location Coatsland , East Antarctica
Mountains Shackleton Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 80 ° 30 '55 "  S , 20 ° 24' 46"  W Coordinates: 80 ° 30 '55 "  S , 20 ° 24' 46"  W
Lundström Knoll (Antarctica)
Lundström Knoll
Normal way Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Lundström Knoll is a rocky hill about 1400  m high in the East Antarctic Coatsland . In the Shackleton Range , the Chevreul Cliffs loom northeast at Pioneers Escarpment .

Aerial photographs were taken in 1967 by the United States Navy , the British Antarctic Survey carried out surveys between 1968 and 1971. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1972 after the Swedish inventor Johan Edvard Lundström (1815–1888), who developed the first functional safety match in 1855 .

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