Nimbusryggen
| Nimbusryggen | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Crawl mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 73 ° 44 ′ S , 14 ° 52 ′ W | |
The Nimbusryggen ( Norwegian ) is a mountain ridge in the southern part of the Kraulberge in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It rises up between the Muren and Skansen mountains .
Scientists from the Norwegian Polar Institute named it in 1977 after the weather satellite Nimbus-6 , the data of which was received by a weather station erected on the mountain ridge in January 1977.
Web links
- Nimbusryggen in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
- Nimbusryggen in the Norwegian Polar Institute directory