Thonhauserfelsen

Thonhauserfelsen
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height	1020  m
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Bowers Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	70 ° 42 '44 "  S , 163 ° 35' 37"  O Coordinates: 70 ° 42 '44 "  S , 163 ° 35' 37"  O

The Thonhauserfelsen is a 1020  m high rock ledge in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Bowers Mountains, it rises at the western end of Platypus Ridge .

Scientists of the German expedition GANOVEX I (1979–1980) made his name. It is named after the Austrian Werner Thonhauser, radio operator on the MS  Schepelsturm on this research trip .

See also

• List of geographical objects named by the GANOVEX expeditions

Web links

• Thonhauserfelsen in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)