Straumsvola
| Straumsvola | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Gburekspitzen in Sverdrupfjella | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 7 ′ 0 ″ S , 0 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Straumsvola ( Norwegian for flow Berg ) is a prominent mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It rises 10 km east of Jutulrøra Mountain in the northwestern part of Sverdrupfjella above the eastern flank of Jutulstraumen Glacier .
The first aerial photographs were taken during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . Norwegian cartographers gave it a descriptive name and mapped it on the basis of surveys and aerial photographs of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952) and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960).
Web links
- Straumsvola in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Straumsvola on geographic.org (English)