Sprekkefjellet
| Sprekkefjellet | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ S , 5 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Sprekkefjellet (Norwegian for Cleaved Mountain is) an isolated hill in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In the Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains it rises 8 km north of the estuary of the Austre Skorvebreen . Its name is derived from its two low peaks , which are separated from each other by a snow-covered saddle .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named it descriptively, mapped it on the basis of measurements and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960).
Web links
- Sprekkefjellet in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sprekkefjellet on geographic.org (English)