Svindlandfjellet

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Svindlandfjellet
height 2002  m
location Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Sør Rondane
Coordinates 72 ° 5 ′ 0 ″  S , 23 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 72 ° 5 ′ 0 ″  S , 23 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  E
Svindlandfjellet (Antarctica)
Svindlandfjellet

The Svindlandfjellet ( Norwegian ) is a 2002  m high mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It rises west of Walnumfjella in the center of Sør Rondane .

Scientists from the Norwegian Polar Institute named it in 1988. It is named after Sigurd Ålvik Svindland (* 1921), topographer for Operation Pingvin from 1958 to 1959 for the creation of aerial photographs in the course of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960).

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