Otohime Iwa

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Otohime Iwa
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height 137.5  m
location Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica
Coordinates 67 ° 58 ′ 0 ″  S , 44 ° 8 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 67 ° 58 ′ 0 ″  S , 44 ° 8 ′ 0 ″  E
Otohime Iwa (Antarctica)
Otohime Iwa

Otohime Iwa (from Japanese 乙 姫 岩 'Otohime rock' ) is a 137.5  m high and rocky hill on the Crown Prince Olav coast of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It rises up in the vicinity of Cape Ryūgū .

Japanese cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs from 1962 and from survey data collected from 1977 to 1978. They named it in 1979 after a princess from Japanese mythology .

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