Pinegin tip

Pinegin tip
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height	2595 m
location	Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Well-being, massive
Coordinates	71 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ S , 12 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 71 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ S , 12 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ E
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Pineginspitze ( Russian Гора Пинегина Gora Pinegina , Norwegian Pinegintoppen ) is a 2595 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It rises as its highest point in the center of the Isdalsegga ridge in the southern Petermann chain of the Wohlthat massif .

It was discovered and mapped using aerial photographs during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . The third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956-1960) and Soviet scientists between 1960 and 1961 named the mountain after the Soviet polar explorer Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Pinegin (1883-1940).

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