Nils Larsenfjellet
| Nils Larsenfjellet | ||
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| height | 2190 m | |
| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sør Rondane | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ S , 23 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Nils Larsenfjellet is a 2190 m high mountain in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . It rises 5 km west of Widerøefjellet in the Sør Rondane Mountains .
Norwegian cartographers mapped the mountain in 1957 using aerial photographs taken during the US Operation Highjump (1946–1947). It is named after the Norwegian captain Nils Larsen (1900–1976), skipper of the Norvegia on three Antarctic voyages between 1928 and 1931 under the direction of the Antarctic explorer Lars Christensen .
Web links
- Nils Larsen Mountain in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Nils Larsen Mountain on geographic.org (English)