Zhelannaya Mountain
| Zhelannaya Mountain | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Russkiye Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ S , 18 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Zhelannaya Mountain ( Russian Гора Желанная Gora Schelannaja , German “Mountain of Longing” ) is an isolated mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In the Russkiye Mountains it rises 17.5 km north of Mount Karpinskiy .
Scientists from a Soviet Antarctic expedition , who also named it, discovered and mapped it in 1959. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names translated the Russian name into English in 1971.
Web links
- Zhelannaya Mountain in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Zhelannaya Mountain on geographic.org (English)