Melfjellet
| Melfjellet | ||
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| location | Kempland , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Hansenfjella | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ S , 59 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Melfjellet (for Norwegian flour mountain , also known as Mount Whiting ) is a distinctive rocky outcrop in the East Antarctic Kemp Land . In the Hansenfjella it rises 3 km southeast of the lake Nunatak .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named it, mapped the survey using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . The name given by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) is named after John Whiting, pilot of a DHC-2 Beaver as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions , which was damaged on February 7, 1965 in an accident at Cape Boothby .
Web links
- Melfjellet in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Melfjellet on geographic.org (English)