Split pins
| Split pins | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Borg massif | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 41 ′ 0 ″ S , 3 ° 59 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Splinten ( Norwegian for splinter ) is a mountain in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . In the Borg massif, it rises up as one of the Seilkopf Mountains immediately north of the Pilarryggen .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named it, mapped it using geodetic surveys and aerial photographs of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952).
Web links
- Cotter pins peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Splinten Peak on geographic.org (English)