Mount Engelstad

Mount Engelstad
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height	3252 m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	85 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ S , 167 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 85 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ S , 167 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ W
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

Mount Engelstad is a 3252 m high mountain with a rounded and snow-capped peak in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains it rises at the head of the Axel Heiberg Glacier on the polar plateau halfway between the Helland Hansen shoulder and Mount Wilhelm Christophersen .

The Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen discovered and named it in 1911 during his South Pole expedition (1910–1912). It is named after the frigate captain Ole Engelstad (1876-1909) of the Norwegian Navy , whom Amundsen had designated as deputy commander of the research vessel Fram , but who was killed on July 26, 1909 in Horten, Norway while testing a kite by a lightning strike .

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