Pilten (Nunatak)
| Pilten | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sør Rondane | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ S , 24 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The pilten (Norwegian for toddler ) is a nunatak in Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica . In the Sør Rondane mountains, it rises in the northern section of Gjelbreen .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named it descriptively, mapped it in 1957 using aerial photographs of the US operation Highjump (1946–1947).
Web links
- Pilten Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pilten Nunatak on geographic.org (English)