Thyssenhöhe

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Thyssenhöhe
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height 869  m
location Berkner Island ( West Antarctica )
Coordinates 79 ° 34 ′ 0 ″  S , 45 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 79 ° 34 ′ 0 ″  S , 45 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  W.
Thyssenhöhe (Antarctica)
Thyssenhöhe

The Thyssenhöhe (also known as the South Dome ) is an 869  m high ice dome in the south of Berkner Island in the West Antarctic Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf . It rises southwest of Roberts Inlet .

German scientists named it in 1991 after the German geophysicist Franz Thyssen (1932–2009) from the University of Münster .

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