Utsteinen
| Utsteinen | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sør Rondane | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ S , 23 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Utsteinen (Norwegian for outer stone ) is a nunatak in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It rises 6 km north of Vikinghøgda and the main group of the Sør Rondane Mountains .
Norwegian cartographers, who named the Nunatak after its peripheral location, mapped it in 1957 using aerial photographs of the American Operation Highjump (1946–1947).
Web links
- Utsteinen Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Utsteinen Nunatak on geographic.org (English)