Mount Kjerka
| Mount Kjerka | ||
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| height | 865 m | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Gustav Bull Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ S , 66 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Kjerka (in Australia Church Mountain ) is a 865 m high and rocky mountain in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . At the southern end of the Gustav Bull Mountains, it rises 17.5 km south of Mount Marsden .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it on the basis of aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 and named it as Kjerka (Norwegian for church ). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names translated this designation into English in 1947.
Web links
- Mount Kjerka in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Kjerka on geographic.org (English)