Sømmemoren
| Sømmemoren | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Kottasberge in Heimefrontfjella | |
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| Coordinates | 74 ° 19 ′ S , 9 ° 50 ′ W | |
The Sømmemoren ( Norwegian ) is a moraine in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It is located in Heimefrontfjella on the west side of the Kottas Mountains and is home to the 1,406 m high Nunatak Brandstorpnabben .
Scientists at the Norwegian Polar Institute named it in 1969 after the zoologist Iacob Dybwad Sømme (1898-1944), a leader of the Milorg resistance group against the German occupation of Norway in World War II , who was executed on March 3, 1944 after being sentenced by a German military tribunal.
Web links
- Sømmemoren in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
- Sømmemoren in the directory of the Norwegian Polar Institute