Vorortind
| Vorortind | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Kirwanveggen , Maudheimvidda | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ S , 1 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Vorrtind ( Norwegian for protruding peak ) is a mountain in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . In Kirwanveggen, it rises from the Austvorren ridge immediately north of the Neumayer steep face .
The first aerial photographs were taken during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . Norwegian cartographers, who also named the mountain, mapped it on the basis of surveys and aerial photographs of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–1952) and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960) from 1958 to 1959 .
Web links
- Vorrtind peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Vorrtind Peak on geographic.org (English)