Sørhjelmen
| Sørhjelmen | ||
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| height | 2030 m | |
| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sør Rondane | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ S , 26 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Sørhjelmen ( Norwegian for Südhelm ) is a 2,030 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In the Sør Rondane Mountains, it rises at the head of Hettebreen at the southern end of a group of mountain peaks immediately east of the mouth of the Byrdbreen .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named the mountain after its geographical position, mapped it in 1946 using aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 and in 1957 using the same aerial photographs from the US Operation Highjump (1946–1947).
Web links
- Sørhjelmen peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sørhjelmen Peak on geographic.org (English)