Simensentoppen

Simensentoppen
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height	2215 m
location	Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Sør Rondane
Coordinates	71 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ S , 25 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 71 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ S , 25 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ E

The Simensentoppen is a 2215 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In the Sør Rondane Mountains, it rises on the northern flank of the Glitrefonna glacier .

Norwegian cartographers, who also named the mountain, mapped it in 1957 using aerial photographs of the US operation Highjump (1946–1947). It is named after Erik Simensen, an expert in aerial photography on the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 .

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