Melleby nuts
| Melleby nuts | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Kirwanveggen | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ S , 1 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Mellebynuten is a mountain in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . In the Kirwanveggen it marks the eastern end of the Neumayer steep face .
The first aerial photographs were taken during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of Alfred Ritscher . Norwegian cartographers, who also named it, mapped the mountain based on surveys and aerial photographs of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (NBSAE, 1949–1952) and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960) made between 1958 and 1959 . It is named after Peter Melleby (* 1917), who is responsible for sled dogs at the NBSAE.
Web links
- Melleby peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Melleby Peak on geographic.org (English)