Black horns
| Black horns | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Middle Petermann chain in the Wohlthatmassiv | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 35 ′ S , 12 ° 37 ′ E | |
The Black Horns ( Norwegian Svarthorna ) are, depending on how they are counted, a mountain range consisting of five or more peaks in Queen Maud's East Antarctic Land . They rise from the curved southern end of the Middle Petermann chain in the Wohlthatmassiv .
The mountain range was discovered and named descriptively during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . A new mapping and the translation of the name into Norwegian were carried out by participants of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956-1960).
See also
Web links
- Svarthorna Peaks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Svarthorna Peaks on geographic.org (English)