Veterokhamaren
| Veterokhamaren | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Payer group in Hoelfjella | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ S , 14 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Veterokhamaren ( Russian Скала Ветерок Skala Weterok , German 'Weterokfelsen' , English Veterok Rock ) is a rocky outcrop in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In the Payer group of Hoelfjella it rises immediately north of the Spraglegga ridge .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it on the basis of surveys and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960). Participants in a Soviet Antarctic expedition (1960–1961) mapped it again. Soviet scientists finally named him after Weterok (Russian for breeze ), one of two dogs of the Soviet space mission Kosmos 110 in 1966. This name was later translated into Norwegian and English.
Web links
- Veterok Rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Veterok Rock on geographic.org (English)