Mount Nikolayev

Mount Nikolayev
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height	2850 m
location	Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Southern Petermann chain in the Wohlthatmassiv
Coordinates	71 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ S , 12 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 71 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ S , 12 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ E
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

Mount Nikolayev ( Russian Гора Николаева Gora Nikolajewa ) is a 2850 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It rises in the center of the Aurdalsegga in the southern Petermann chain of the Wohlthatmassiv .

It was discovered and mapped using aerial photographs during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . Norwegian cartographers mapped it again using aerial photographs and measurements from the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960). The name goes back to a Soviet Antarctic expedition from 1960 to 1961. Name giver is the Soviet petrograve Viktor Arsenjewitsch Nikolajew (1893-1960). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names translated the Russian designation into English in 1970.

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