Vestknatten
| Vestknatten | ||
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| location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ S , 75 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Vestknatten (Norwegian for western ledge ) is an elongated nunatak in Princess Elisabeth Lands in East Antarctica . It rises about 21 km east-southeast of Mount Caroline Mikkelsen from the ice masses of the polar research glacier .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named it, mapped it using aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . The Australian geologist Ian Roderick McLeod (* 1931) visited him in January 1969 while exploring the Prince Charles Mountains on one of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions .
Web links
- Vestknatten Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Vestknatten Nunatak on geographic.org (English)