Nupskammen
| Nupskammen | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Gjelsvikfjella | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 9 ′ S , 2 ° 19 ′ E | |
The Nupskammen ( Norwegian for summit ridge ) is a mountain range of jagged mountain peaks in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . It rises north of the Von Essenskarvet mountain in Gjelsvikfjella .
Aerial photographs of this mountain ridge were first taken during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . Norwegian cartographers gave it a descriptive name and mapped it on the basis of surveys and aerial photographs of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952) and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960).
Web links
- Nupskammen Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Nupskammen Ridge on geographic.org (English)