Ormehausen
| Ormehausen | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Payer group in Hoelfjella | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ S , 14 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Ormehausen (Norwegian for snakehead is) a mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In the Payer group of Hoelfjella it rises at the northern end of the Linnormen group of hills .
The first aerial photographs were taken during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . Norwegian cartographers, who also used the descriptive naming, mapped it on the basis of measurements and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960).
Web links
- Ormehausen peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ormehausen Peak on geographic.org (English)