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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 3,260 metres
- Description: mountain in Ross Dependency, Antarctica
- Also known as: “Wisting, Mount” and “Wistingfjell”
Mount Wisting
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-86.45° or 86° 27′ southLongitude
-165.43333° or 165° 26′ westElevation
3,260 metres (10,696 feet)Named after
Oscar WistingOpen location code
225PGHX8+XMOpenStreetMap ID
node 11109166472OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakGeoNames ID
6628219Wikidata ID
Q6924637
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Satellite Map
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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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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 “Mount Wisting”. Photo: ravas51, CC BY-SA 2.0.