Mount Severtsev

Mount Severtsev
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height	2540 m
location	Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Well-being, massive
Coordinates	71 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ S , 12 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 71 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ S , 12 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ E

Mount Severtsev ( Russian Гора Северцова Gora Severzowa , Norwegian Severcevtoppen ) is a 2540 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In the southern Petermann chain of the Wohlthat massif, it rises 3 km northeast of the Pineginspitze .

It was discovered and mapped using aerial photographs during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . The third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960) and Soviet scientists between 1960 and 1961 named the mountain after the Russian zoologist Nikolai Alexejewitsch Severzow (1827–1885). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names transferred the Russian name to English in 1970.

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