Molchaniya skirt
| Molchaniya skirt | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Payer group in Hoelfjella | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ S , 14 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Molchaniya Rock ( Russian Скала Молчания Skala Moltschanija , German 'Stiller Felsen' , Norwegian Molchanijaberget ) is an isolated rocky outcrop in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In the Payer group of the Hoelfjella it rises 10 km west-northwest of the Rochlin-Nunatakker .
It was discovered and mapped using aerial photographs during the German Antarctic Expedition (1938–1939) under the direction of Alfred Ritscher . Soviet scientists carried out a new mapping and naming on a research trip that lasted from 1960 to 1961. The latter was translated into English by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1970.
Web links
- Molchaniya Rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Molchaniya Rock on geographic.org (English)