Nordenskjöld Peak
Nordenskjöld Peak is a conspicuous, partly snow-covered mountain, 2,355 m, which rises at the head of Nordenskjöld Glacier and stands close east of Mount Roots in the Allardyce Range of South Georgia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- 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.
Mount Roots
Peak
Mount Roots is a mainly snow-covered mountain on South Georgia, standing near the head of Nordenskjold Glacier, 6 kilometres ESE of Mount Paget. Its western peak rises to 2,158 metres; its eastern peak to 2,270 metres.
Mount Kling
Peak
Mount Kling is a mountain, 1,845 m, between Nordenskjold Peak and Mount Brooker in the Allardyce Range 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
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Latitude
-54.48946° or 54° 29′ 22″ southLongitude
-36.36368° or 36° 21′ 49″ westElevation
2,354 metres (7,723 feet)Open location code
39Q5GJ6P+6GOpenStreetMap ID
node 1826049508OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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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
Explore places such as Lonberg Valley and Austin Head.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Sheridan Peak and Mount MacArthur.
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