Sarcofages
| Sarcofages | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Russkiye Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ S , 16 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The sarcophagus (Norwegian for sarcophagus ) is a somewhat isolated mountain in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . In the Russkiye Mountains it rises 18 km south of Mount Yakovlev .
Cartographers from the Norsk Polar Institute , who also named it descriptively, mapped it using aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960) from 1958 to 1959.
Web links
- Sarkofagen Mountain in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sarkofagen Mountain on geographic.org (English)