The Lookout (Antarctica)
| The lookout | ||
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| height | 90 m | |
| location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Vestfold Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ S , 77 ° 57 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Lookout (English for The view is) a 90 m high hill on the Ingrid Christensen Coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth country . In the Vestfold Mountains it rises 0.8 km inland at the western end of the Breidnes Peninsula .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it based on aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . On the Davis Station active scientists visited him in 1957 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The descriptive naming was done by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia .
Web links
- The Lookout in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- The Lookout on geographic.org (English)