Nansen, Mount
Mount Nansen is a prominent mountain, surmounting the steep eastern escarpment of the Eisenhower Range, 17 km south of Mount Baxter, in Victoria Land. Discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition, and named for Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian Arctic explorer from whom Capt.- Peak rising to 2,740 metres (8,990 feet)
- …is also known as “Mount Nansen”
- …is named after Fridtjof Nansen
- Description: mountain in Victoria Land, Antarctica
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- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-74.55085° or 74° 33′ 3″ south
Longitude
162.59451° or 162° 35′ 40″ east
Open location code
2VQ4CHXV+MR
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OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Nansen, Mount” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Nansen mendia (Antartika)”
- Basque: “Nansen mendia”
- Cebuano: “Nansen”
- Chinese: “南森山”
- Dutch: “Mount Nansen”
- Dutch: “Nansen”
- French: “Mont Nansen”
- German: “Mount Nansen”
- Ladin: “Mount Nansen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Nansen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mount Nansen i Antarktis”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mount Nansen”
- Russian: “Гора Нансена”
- Swedish: “Mount Nansen”
- Swedish: “Nansen (berg)”
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