Snønutryggen
| Snønutryggen | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 14 ′ S , 5 ° 20 ′ E | |
The Snønutryggen ( Norwegian for snow peak ridge ) is a wide and icy mountain ridge in Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica . In the Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains it rises southeast of the Snønutane .
Norwegian cartographers gave it a descriptive name and mapped it on the basis of surveys and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960).
Web links
- Snønutryggen in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Snønutryggen on geographic.org (English)