Olsen Crags
| Olsen Crags | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Maud Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 86 ° 12 ′ S , 160 ° 48 ′ W | |
The Olsen Crags are rugged cliffs in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . In the Queen Maud Mountains they tower over a small but striking massif on the eastern flank of the Amundsen Glacier immediately north of the Epler Glacier .
The United States Geological Survey mapped the formation from its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy in the years from 1960 to 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names renamed it in 1967 after the Norwegian Karenius Olsen (1890-1973), a ship's cook on the Fram at the South Pole Expedition (1910–1912) by the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen . The committee thus kept Amundsen's designation of an unidentifiable mountain in the vicinity of the cliffs as Mount K. Olsen .
Web links
- Olsen Crags in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Olsen Crags on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karenius Olsen (1890-1973) . Short biography on the Frammuseum homepage (accessed December 19, 2016).