Nipehovden

Nipehovden
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height	2361  m
location	Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Sør Rondane
Coordinates	71 ° 54 ′ 36 ″  S , 24 ° 38 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 71 ° 54 ′ 36 ″  S , 24 ° 38 ′ 0 ″  E

The Nipehovden ( Norwegian , Japanese 手首山 Tekubi Yama , German , wrist Mountain ' ; Russian Гора Александра Невского Gora Aleksandra Newskowo , German , Alexander Nevsky Mountain' ) is a 2,361  m high mountain in the mountains Sør Rondane the East Antarctic Queen Maud Lands . It rises in the southeast of the Brattnipane , the highest peak of which it is.

Japanese scientists took aerial photographs between 1981 and 1982 and 1986 , took measurements between 1984 and 1991 and gave them descriptive names. In the arrangement of the Brattnipane, the mountain reminded them of the joint of the left hand . It was named by scientists from the Norwegian Polar Institute as early as 1973. Russian scientists, in turn, named it after the Russian prince Alexander Newski (≈1220–1263).

Web links

• Nipehovden in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
• Nipehovden in the directory of the Norwegian Polar Institute