Sphinx (mountain)
| sphinx | ||
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| height | 1850 m | |
| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Well-being, massive | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ S , 11 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Sphinx ( Norwegian Sfinks ) is an 1850 m high, elongated mountain with north-south orientation over a length of 10 km in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It rises 8 km east of the northwestern island in the Wohlthatmassiv .
It was discovered during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher , who named the elevation at the northern end of the mountain as the Sphinx's head . The name of the mountain described here was made by participants in the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960), which was ultimately also adopted by participants in a Soviet Antarctic expedition (1960–1961).
Web links
- Sphinx Mountain in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sphinx Mountain on geographic.org (English)