Otto Borchgrevinkfjellet
| Otto Borchgrevinkfjellet | ||
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| height | 2390 m | |
| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sør Rondane | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ S , 23 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Otto Borchgrevinkfjellet is a 2,390 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It rises 5 km south of the Tanngarden mountain range in the Sør Rondane mountains .
Norwegian cartographers mapped the mountain in 1957 using aerial photographs taken during the US Operation Highjump (1946–1947). It is named after the Norwegian captain Otto Borchgrevink (1889-1966), leader of a whaling expedition with the ship Antarctic that lasted from 1930 to 1931 , during which the coast of the Enderbyland was mapped between 51 ° 30 'and 59 ° east longitude.
Web links
- Mount Borchgrevink in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Borchgrevink on geographic.org (English)