Oppkuven
| Oppkuven | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sverdrupfjella | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ S , 0 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Oppkuven (Norwegian for growth summit is) a mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In the Rootshorga of Sverdrupfjella it rises 3 km north of Gavlen .
The first aerial photographs were taken during the German Antarctic Expedition (1938–1939). Norwegian cartographers, who also named it, mapped it using aerial photographs of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (NBSAE, 1949–1952) and the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960) from 1958 to 1959.
Web links
- Oppkuven peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Oppkuven Peak on geographic.org (English)