Storjoen
| Storjoen | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sverdrupfjella | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 7 ′ 0 ″ S , 0 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Storjoen ( Norwegian for Skua ) is a mountain in Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica . In the Sverdrupfjella it rises 6 km northwest of the Tvora .
The first aerial photographs were taken during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . Norwegian cartographers, who also named it, mapped it using surveys and aerial photographs of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952) and aerial photographs from 1958 to 1959 of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960).
Web links
- Storjoen Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Storjoen Peak on geographic.org (English)