Sauter bar

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Sauter bar
height 2680  m
location Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Gjelsvikfjella in Fimbulheimen
Coordinates 72 ° 11 ′ 0 ″  S , 2 ° 46 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 72 ° 11 ′ 0 ″  S , 2 ° 46 ′ 0 ″  E
Sauter bar (Antarctica)
Sauter bar
Normal way Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Sauterriegel is a highly subdivided mountain in Queen Maud's East Antarctic land . It rises up immediately to the east of the Mayr range and forms the southeastern part of Gjelsvikfjella . Its highest peak is the Terningen with 2680  m .

It was discovered and named during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . It is named after Siegfried Sauter (1916–2008), aerial photographer and participant in this research trip. Norwegian cartographers map the mountain based on surveys and aerial photographs of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952) and the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960). In Norway, it bears the name Terningskarvet ( Norwegian for matrices mountain )

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