Nordenskjöld Peak

Nordenskjöld Peak is a conspicuous, partly snow-covered mountain, 2,355 m, which rises at the head of and stands close east of in the of .
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  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,354 metres
  • Description: mountain in South Georgia
  • Also known as: Nordenskjold Peak

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mount Roots and Mount Kling.

Peak
is a mainly snow-covered mountain on , standing near the head of Nordenskjold Glacier, 6 kilometres ESE of . Its western peak rises to 2,158 metres; its eastern peak to 2,270 metres.

Peak
is a mountain, 1,845 m, between Nordenskjold Peak and in the of South Georgia. It was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey in the period 1951–57, and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Alfred Kling, navigator of the Deutschland during the German Antarctic Expedition, 1911–12, under Filchner.

Nordenskjöld Peak

Latitude
-54.48946° or 54° 29′ 22″ south
Longitude
-36.36368° or 36° 21′ 49″ west
Elevation
2,354 metres (7,723 feet)
Open location code
39Q5GJ6P+6G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1826049508
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
3426361
Wiki­data ID
Q11638996
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Nordenskjöld Peak” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: Nordenskjöld Peak
  • Chinese: 努登舍爾德峰
  • Dutch: Nordenskjöld Peak
  • Egyptian Arabic: جبل نوردينسكچولد پياك
  • German: Nordenskjöld Peak
  • Ladin: Nordenskjöld Peak
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Nordenskjöld Peak
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Nordenskjöld Peak
  • Norwegian: Nordenskjöld Peak
  • Spanish: Pico Nordenskjöld
  • Swedish: Nordenskjöld Peak

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Sheridan Peak and Mount MacArthur.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Nordenskjöld Peak”. Photo: Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 2.0.