Zhil'naya Mountain

Zhil'naya Mountain
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height	2560 m
location	Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Southern Petermann chain in the Wohlthatmassiv
Coordinates	71 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ S , 12 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 71 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ S , 12 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ E
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Zhil'naya Mountain ( Russian Гора Жильная Gora Schilnaja , German 'branching mountain ' ) is a 2560 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It rises in the center of the Svarthausane of the southern Petermann chain in the Wohlthatmassiv .

The mountain was discovered and mapped using aerial photographs during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . A new mapping based on aerial photographs and surveys was carried out during the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960). The descriptive naming goes back to a Soviet Antarctic expedition from 1960 to 1961, which was transcribed in 1970 by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names . In Norway the mountain is called Žil'najatoppen .

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