Sverreborga
| Sverreborga | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Conrad Mountains , Orvinfjella | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ S , 9 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Sverreborga (Norwegian for Sverreburg ) is a small mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In the Conrad Mountains of Orvinfjella, it rises at the northern end of Pettersenegga .
He was discovered and photographed from the air during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . Norwegian cartographers, who also named the mountain, mapped it using aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960). It is named after Sverre Pettersen, participant in the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition from 1957 to 1958.
Web links
- Sverre Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sverre Peak on geographic.org (English)