Mount Wisting
The Amundsen Glacier is a major Antarctic glacier, about 7 to 11 km wide and 150 km long. It originates on the Antarctic Plateau where it drains the area to the south and west of Nilsen Plateau, then descends through the Queen Maud Mountains to enter the Ross Ice Shelf just west of the MacDonald Nunataks.- Peak rising to 3,260 metres (10,696 feet)
- …is named after Oscar Wisting
- Description: mountain in Ross Dependency, Antarctica
- Also known as“Wisting, Mount”“Wistingfjell”
Mount Wisting
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- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-86.45° or 86° 27′ south
Longitude
-165.43333° or 165° 26′ west
Open location code
225PGHX8+XM
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OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Venetian—“Mount Wisting” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Wisting”
- Chinese: “維斯廷山”
- Dutch: “Mount Wisting”
- German: “Mount Wisting”
- Italian: “Monte Wisting”
- Ladin: “Mount Wisting”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Wisting”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mount Wisting”
- Swedish: “Mount Wisting”
- Swedish: “Wisting”
- Venetian: “Monte Wisting”
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