Mount Valikhanov
| Mount Valikhanov | ||
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| height | 2800 m | |
| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Petermann chains in the Wohlthatmassiv | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 49 ′ 0 ″ S , 12 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Mount Valikhanov ( Russian Гора Вагиханова Gora Walichanowa , Norwegian Valichanovtoppen ) is a 2,800 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It rises 1.5 km northwest of Mount Mirotvortsev in the southern Petermann chain of the Wohlthat massif .
The mountain was discovered and first mapped during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . Norwegian cartographers carried out a new mapping based on aerial photographs and measurements made by the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960). Participants in a Soviet Antarctic expedition (1960–1961) named him after the geographer Schokan Walichanow (1935–1965). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names translated this designation into English in 1970.
Web links
- Mount Valikhanov in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Valikhanov on geographic.org (English)