Smørstabben
Smørstabben | ||
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height | 2830 m | |
location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
Mountains | Alexander von Humboldt Mountains in the Wohlthatmassiv | |
Coordinates | 71 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ S , 10 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Smørstabben (Norwegian for butter churn pestle ) is an isolated nunatak in Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica . In the Alexander von Humboldt Mountains of the Wohlthat massif, it rises 16 km west of the Eckhörner .
He was discovered and photographed from the air during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . Norwegian cartographers, who also named it, mapped it on the basis of measurements and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960).
Web links
- Smørstabben Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Smørstabben Nunatak on geographic.org (English)