Robinheia
| Robinheia | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Sverdrupfjella | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 27 ′ S , 0 ° 38 ′ E | |
The Robinheia ( English Robin Heights ) are a group of rocky mountain peaks in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . They lie in the Sverdrupfjella and separate the Heibreen the Valley Kvitsvodene .
The first aerial photographs were taken during the German Antarctic Expedition (1938–1939). Norwegian cartographers mapped them using geodetic surveys and aerial photographs of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (NBSAE, 1949–1952) and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960). Namesake is the Australian physicist Gordon de Quetteville Robin (1921-2004), participant of the NBSAE.
Web links
- Robin Heights in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Robin Heights on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ David J. Drewry (2005): A remembrance - Gordon de Quetteville Robin. In: Polar Record 41 (217): pp. 177-181 (accessed on March 27, 2016).