Snøskalkegga
| Snøskalkegga | ||
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| Highest peak | Kazanskaya Mountain ( 2690 m ) | |
| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Weyprechtberge in Hoelfjella | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 59 ′ S , 13 ° 13 ′ E | |
The Snøskalkegga ( roughly translated from Norwegian: Schneekuchenstückgrat ) is a 5 km long and mostly snow-covered mountain ridge in Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica . In the Weyprecht Mountains it rises 3 km west of the Dekefjellet and is overlooked at the northern end by the Kazanskaya Mountain .
It was discovered and mapped using aerial photographs 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
- Snøskalkegga Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Snøskalkegga Ridge on geographic.org (English)