Stor Hånakken
| Stor Hånakken | ||
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| height | 1970 m | |
| location | Enderbyland , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Napier Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 32 '0 " S , 53 ° 38' 0" E | |
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The Stor Hånakken ( Norwegian for Big Hainacken in Australia Mount Bennett ) is a 1970 m high and prominent mountain in the East Antarctic Enderbyland . It rises in the center of the Napier Mountains .
Norwegian cartographers, who also gave the mountain its descriptive name, mapped it using aerial photographs that were taken between January and February 1937 as part of the Lars Christensen Expedition 1936/37 . Participants in a campaign led by the Australian geodesist Sydney Lorrimar Kirkby (* 1933) as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions visited him in 1960. The name given to the Australian name is Kenneth Lyle Bennett (* 1936), a radio operator at Davis Station in 1969.
Web links
- Stor Hånakken Mountain in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Stor Hånakken Mountain on geographic.org (English)