Vesthjelmen
| Vesthjelmen | ||
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| height | 1810 m | |
| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sør Rondane | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ S , 26 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Vesthjelmen (Norwegian for West helmet ) is a 1,810 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It rises 13 km west of the Austhamaren in the mountains of Sør Rondane .
Norwegian cartographers gave the mountain descriptive names and mapped it in 1947 using aerial photographs from the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 and in 1957 using aerial photographs from the US Operation Highjump (1946–1947).
Web links
- Vesthjelmen Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Vesthjelmen Peak on geographic.org (English)