Stenkatoppen
| Stenkatoppen | ||
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| height | 2350 m | |
| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Payer group in Hoelfjella | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ S , 14 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Stenkatoppen ( Russian Гора Стенка Gora Stenka , German 'Wandberg' , English Stenka Mountain ) is a 2350 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In the Payer group of Hoelfjella it rises in the center of the Spraglegga mountain ridge as the highest point.
It was discovered and mapped using aerial photographs during the German Antarctic Expedition (1938–1939) under the direction of Alfred Ritscher . Norwegian cartographers mapped it on the basis of measurements and other aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960). Participants in a Soviet Antarctic expedition (1960–1961) mapped it again and named it descriptively. This name was later translated into Norwegian and English.
Web links
- Stenka Mountain in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Stenka Mountain on geographic.org (English)