Mefjell
| Mefjell | ||
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| height | 3080 m | |
| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sør Rondane | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ S , 25 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mefjell (freely translated from Norwegian, Mittelberg ) is a 3,080 m high mountain in Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica . It rises 8 km west of Bergersenfjella in the Sør Rondane Mountains .
Norwegian cartographers, who also gave this mountain its name, mapped it in 1946 using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 , and in 1957 using the same from the US Operation Highjump (1946–1947).
Web links
- Mefjell Mountain in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mefjell Mountain on geographic.org (English)