Meknattane
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| location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 69 ° 48 ′ S , 75 ° 12 ′ E | |
The Meknattans (Norwegian for middle cliffs ) are a group of nunataks on the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . They rise up on the east side of the mouth of the Polar Research Glacier in the Publications Ice Shelf . The group consists of a massive mountain ridge with jagged rocky outcrops in the south and east.
Norwegian cartographers, who also named them, mapped them using aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . Further aerial photos were taken during the US operation Highjump (1946–1947). The geologist Ian Roderick McLeod (* 1931) explored them in January 1969 as part of a campaign by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions to the Prince Charles Mountains .
Web links
- Meknattane nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Meknattane Nunataks on geographic.org (English)