Sollienabben
| Sollienabben | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sivorgfjella in Heimefrontfjella | |
| Coordinates | 74 ° 31 ′ 36 ″ S , 11 ° 26 ′ 30 ″ W | |
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The Sollienabben ( Norwegian ) is a small nunatak in the Heimefrontfjella of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . At the northwestern end of Sivorgfjella it rises between the Ustvedthorten and the Furubotnnabben .
Scientists at the Norwegian Polar Institute named it in 1987. It is named after the steel worker Ragnar Armand Sollie (1912–1987), a communist and a leader of the resistance movement against the German occupation of Norway in World War II .
Web links
- Sollienabben in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
- Sollienabben in the directory of the Norwegian Polar Institute (English)