Vesthaugen
| Vesthaugen | ||
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| height | 1400 m | |
| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sør Rondane | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ S , 23 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Vesthaugen ( Norwegian for West Hill ) is a 1400 m high nunatak in Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica . In the Sør Rondane Mountains, it rises 24 km northwest of the Brattnipane .
Norwegian cartographers, who descriptively named the Nunatak after its geographical position, mapped it in 1946 using aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 and in 1957 using the same type of operation from the US Highjump (1946–1947).
Web links
- Vesthaugen Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Vesthaugen Nunatak on geographic.org (English)