Sandhøkalvane
| Sandhøkalvane | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Orvinfjella | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 54 ' S , 9 ° 43' E | |
The Sandhøkalvane (Norwegian for sand height calves are) a group of Nunatakkern in East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In the Orvinfjella they rise 6 km northeast of the Sandhø between the Conrad Mountains and the Dallmann Mountains .
They were discovered and photographed from the air during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . Norwegian cartographers, who also named them, mapped them on the basis of aerial photographs and measurements of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960).
Web links
- Sandhøkalvane nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sandhøkalvane Nunataks on geographic.org (English)