Romnæsfjellet

Romnæsfjellet
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height	1500  m
location	Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Sør Rondane
Coordinates	71 ° 31 ′ 0 ″  S , 24 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 71 ° 31 ′ 0 ″  S , 24 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E

Romnæsfjellet is a 1500  m high, prominent and isolated mountain in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . It rises 35 km northwest of the Brattnipane in the main group of the Sør Rondane Mountains .

Norwegian cartographers, who also named it, mapped it in 1946 using aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . It is named after the Norwegian aerial photographer Nils Romnæs (1902–1943), a participant in this research trip.

Web links

• Mount Romnaes in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Mount Romnaes on geographic.org (English)