Storkvarvsteinen
| Storkvarvsteinen | ||
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| height | 1600 m | |
| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ S , 7 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Storkvarvsteinen ( Norwegian for large pyre rock ) is an isolated and around 1600 m nunatak in the Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It rises 13 km northeast of the Storkvarvet as the largest of the Onezhskiye Nunataks .
Norwegian cartographers, who named it after the name of the Storkvarvet, mapped it on the basis of surveys and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956-1960).
Web links
- Storkvarvsteinen peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Storkvarvsteinen Peak on geographic.org (English)