Storknolten
| Storknolten | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Filchnerberge in Orvinfjella | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ S , 8 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Storknolten ( Norwegian for Great Hill ) is a mountain in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . At the southern end of the Filchnerberge in Orvinfjella, it rises 1.5 km west of the Johannes Müller ridge .
The first aerial photographs were taken during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of Alfred Ritscher . Norwegian cartographers, who also named it, mapped it on the basis of measurements and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960).
Web links
- Stork Olten peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Storknolten Peak on geographic.org (English)