Skimten
| Skimten | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sverdrupfjella | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 13 ′ 0 ″ S , 0 ° 17 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Skimten ( Norwegian for glimpse ) is a small and rocky hill in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . In the Sverdrupfjella it rises 8 km north of the Roerkulten .
Participants in the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 , led by polar explorer Alfred Ritscher, photographed him from the air. Norwegian cartographers, who also named it, mapped it on the basis of surveys and aerial photographs of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952). It is named after the fact that only a small part of the hill penetrates the ice sheet surrounding it .
Web links
- Skimten Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Skimten Hill on geographic.org (English)