Sørtindane
| Sørtindane | ||
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| Highest peak | Gordon Peak ( 1467 m ) | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Framnes Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 68 ° 8 ′ S , 62 ° 24 ′ E | |
The Sørtindane (Norwegian for southern peaks ; in Australia Brown Peaks ) are a group of seven mountains in the Framnes Mountains in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . They rise 4 km south of the Tvitoppen at the southern end of the David Range . The highest peak of this group is to 1467 m of Gordon Peak .
Norwegian cartographers, who named the group after their geographical location, mapped them using aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia called them the other hand in 1959 by Duncan Alexander Brown (born 1925), who as a radio operator in campaigns of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions 1956 Macquarie Iceland , 1958 at the Davis Station and in 1961 on the Mawson Station was active .
Web links
- Sørtindane peaks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sørtindane Peaks on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , pp. 234 and 235 (English).