Rasmussenegga
| Rasmussenegga | ||
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 View of the Nunatakker of the Rasmussenegga |
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | XU-Fjella in the Heimefrontfjella | |
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| Coordinates | 74 ° 34 ′ S , 10 ° 3 ′ W | |
The Rasmussenegga is a mountain ridge in the Heimefrontfjella of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It projects on the northwest side of the XU-fjella and consists of six up to 1929 m high Nunatakkern .
Scientists at the Norwegian Polar Institute named him in 1967 after Einar Korsvig Rasmussen (1895-1942), one of the leaders of the resistance movement against the German occupation of Norway in World War II , who had allegedly evaded arrest by the occupiers by suicide . According to another account, Rasmussen died in 1964.
Web links
- Rasmussenegga in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
- Rasmussenegga in the directory of the Norwegian Polar Institute (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1277 (English).