Storsveenfjellet

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Storsveenfjellet
height 1900  m
location Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica
Mountains XU-Fjella in the Heimefrontfjella
Coordinates 74 ° 35 ′ 18 ″  S , 10 ° 9 ′ 30 ″  W Coordinates: 74 ° 35 ′ 18 ″  S , 10 ° 9 ′ 30 ″  W
Storsveenfjellet (Antarctica)
Storsveenfjellet

The Storsveenfjellet ( Norwegian is) a 1900  m high mountain in the Heimefrontfjella the East Antarctic Queen Maud Lands . It rises in the southern part of the XU-Fjella .

Scientists at the Norwegian Polar Institute named him in 1967 after Arvid Storsveen (1915-1943), a member of the XU resistance movement against the German occupation of Norway in World War II , who was killed on April 27, 1943 while trying to escape.

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