Portnipa

Portnipa
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height	2665 m
location	Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Gjelsvikfjella
Coordinates	72 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ S , 2 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 72 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ S , 2 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ E
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

Portnipa ( Norwegian for Torspitze is) of the 2665 m high summit of From Essenskarvet in gjelsvik mountains of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Lands . It rises at the southwest end of Gjelsvikfjella.

The first aerial photos of the mountain were taken during the German Antarctic Expedition (1938–1939) under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . Norwegian cartographers, who also named it after the neighboring mountain pass Porten , carried out a mapping based on aerial photographs and surveys of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952) and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960) taken between 1958 and 1959 .

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