Wrighthamars
Wrighthamars | ||
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height | 2190 m | |
location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
Mountains | Sivorgfjella in Heimefrontfjella | |
Coordinates | 74 ° 36 ′ 6 ″ S , 11 ° 1 ′ 30 ″ W | |
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The Wrighthamaren is a 2,190 m high mountain in the Heimefrontfjella the East Antarctic Queen Maud Lands . It is the northernmost mountain of Sivorgfjella .
Scientists at the Norwegian Polar Institute named him in 1967 after the Norwegian politician Carl August Petersen Wright (1893–1961), a member of the Storting and a leader of the resistance movement against the German occupation of Norway in World War II .
Web links
- Wrighthamaren in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
- Wrighthamaren in the Norwegian Polar Institute directory