Utrista
| Utrista | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Orvinfjella | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ S , 10 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Utrista (Norwegian for runaway ) is an isolated rocky outcrop in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . At the northeastern end of Orvinfjella it rises 16 km northeast of the Dallmannberge .
He was discovered and photographed from the air during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . Norwegian cartographers, who also named it, mapped it on the basis of measurements and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960).
Web links
- Utrista rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Utrista Rock on geographic.org (English)