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 | |
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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)