Sfinksen
| Sfinksen | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Ahlmannryggen | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ S , 3 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Sfinksen ( Norwegian for Sphinx ) is a nunatak in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . It rises 1.5 km south of the pyramid at the southwest end of the Ahlmannryggen .
Norwegian cartographers named it descriptively and mapped it on the basis of aerial photographs and measurements of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952).
Web links
- Sfinksen Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sfinksen Nunatak on geographic.org (English)