Svellnuts
| Svellnuts | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Borg massif | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ S , 3 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Svellnuten ( Norwegian for Eistafelgipfel is) a low mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In the Borg massif, it rises on the east side of Jøkulskarvet .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named the mountain after the name of the neighboring glacier slope Breidsvellet , mapped it using geodetic surveys and aerial photographs of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952).
Web links
- Svellnuten Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Svellnuten Peak on geographic.org (English)