Onezhskiye Nunataks
| Onezhskiye Nunataks | ||
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| Highest peak | Storkvarvsteinen ( 1600 m ) | |
| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 35 ' S , 7 ° 3' E | |
The Onezhskiye nunataks ( Russian Скалй Онежскиье Skali Oneschskije ) are a small group of Nunatakkern in East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In the Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains they rise 15 km north-northeast of Slettefjellet . The largest nunatak in this group is the Storkvarvstein .
Norwegian cartographers mapped them using measurements and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960). Soviet scientists re-mapped it in 1961 and named it after the Russian River Onega . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names carried over the Russian name in an adapted partial translation into English.
Web links
- Onezhskiye nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Onezhskiye Nunataks on geographic.org (English)