Picciottoknausane
| Picciottoknausane | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Sør Rondane | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 25 ′ S , 20 ° 12 ′ E | |
The Picciottoknausane ( Norwegian ; Russian Нунатаки Мечникова Nunataki Metschnikowa , German 'Metschnikow-Nunatakker' ) are a 25 km long row of Nunatakkern in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . They rise south of Skirfonna in the eastern part of Sør Rondane .
Scientists at the Norwegian Polar Institute named them in 1973 after Edgard E. Picciotto, glaciologist of the United States Antarctic Research Program at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station from 1962 to 1963 and participant in traversing expeditions through Queen Maud Land to the geographic South Pole between 1964 and 1965 and 1965 respectively 1965 and 1966. Russian scientists, however, named them after the Russian geographer Lev Ilyich Metschnikow (1838–1888).
Web links
- Picciottoknausane in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)