Tverrnipa
| Tverrnipa | ||
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| height | 2195 m | |
| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sverdrupfjella | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ S , 1 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Tvernipa ( Norwegian for crossing point ) is a 2195 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In Sverdrupfjella it rises at the northern end of the Tverrveggen ridge .
The first aerial photographs were taken during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . Norwegian cartographers, who also named it, mapped it using surveys and aerial photographs of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952) and aerial photographs from 1958 to 1959 of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960).
Web links
- Tverrnipa peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tverrnipa Peak on geographic.org (English)