Sphinx head

Sphinx head
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height	1630  m
location	Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Well-being, massive
Coordinates	71 ° 25 ′ 0 ″  S , 11 ° 57 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 71 ° 25 ′ 0 ″  S , 11 ° 57 ′ 0 ″  E
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Sphinx Head is a 1630  m high mountain peak in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . It rises up at the northern end of the Sphinx in the northern part of the Wohlthat massif .

It was discovered and descriptively named because of its resemblance to the head of the Egyptian Sphinx during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher .

See also

• List of the geographical objects named by the German Antarctic Expedition 1938/39

Web links

• Sphinx Head Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Sphinx Head Peak on geographic.org (English)