This page presents the geographical name data for
Sør Rondane Mountains in Antarctica, as supplied by the US military intelligence in electronic format, including the geographic coordinates and place name in various forms, latin, roman and native characters, and its location in its respective country's administrative division
Feature Name
(see definition):
Sør Rondane Mountains
Feature Class
(see definition):
Summit
Country Code
(see definition): AQ (Antarctica)
Feature ID
(see definition):
14231
Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds
(see definition):
72° 00' 00" S
Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds
(see definition):
025° 00' 00" E
Primary Latitude in decimal degrees
(see definition):
-72
Primary Longitude in decimal degrees
(see definition):
25
Elevation
(see definition):
3400
Decision Year
(see definition):
01/01/1953
Description
(see definition):
Group of mountains about 100 mi long with main peaks rising to 3, 400 m, between the Queen Fabiola Mountains and Wohlthat Mountains in Queen Maud Land. Discovered and photographed from the air by members of the Lars Christensen Expedition on Feb. 6, 1937, and named after Rondane, a mountain massif in southern Norway. The mountains were mapped in greater detail in 1957 by Norwegian cartographers working with air photos taken by U.S. Navy (USN) OpHjp, 1946-47.
Date Created
(see definition):
No data
Date Edited
(see definition):
No data
NOTE: The information regarding
Sør Rondane Mountains in Antarctica on this page is published from the data supplied by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a member of the Intelligence community of the Antarctica, and a Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Support Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of
Sør Rondane Mountains information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about
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