Egil Peak () is a peak, high, at the east side of
Isingen Mountain, in the
Sverdrup Mountains
The Sverdrup Mountains ( no, Sverdrupfjella) are a group of mountains about long, standing just west of the Gjelsvik Mountains in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica. With its summit at , Hamartind Peak forms the highest point in the Sverdrup Mount ...
of
Queen Maud Land
Queen Maud Land ( no, Dronning Maud Land) is a roughly region of Antarctica claimed by Norway as a dependent territory. It borders the claimed British Antarctic Territory 20° west and the Australian Antarctic Territory 45° east. In addit ...
. It was photographed from the air by the
Third German Antarctic Expedition
New Swabia ( Norwegian and german: Neuschwabenland) was a disputed Antarctic claim by Nazi Germany within the Norwegian territorial claim of Queen Maud Land and is now a cartographic name sometimes given to an area of Antarctica between 20°E ...
(1938–39). It was mapped by Norwegian cartographers from surveys and air photos by the
Norwegian–British–Swedish Antarctic Expedition
The Norwegian–British–Swedish Antarctic Expedition (also known as NBSX or NBSAE) (1949–1952) was the first Antarctica expedition involving an international team of scientists. The team members came from Norway, Sweden and the British Commonwe ...
(NBSAE) (1949–52) and from air photos by the Norwegian expedition (1958–59), and was named for
Egil Rogstad
Egil or Egill is a masculine given name derived from Old Norse. It may refer to:
Characters
*Egil (Hymiskvida), farmer in the poem ''Hymiskvida''
*Egil, brother of Volund, hero of Völundarkviða and the Thidreks saga
*Egil One-Hand, hero from the ...
, chief radio operator with the NBSAE.
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References
Mountains of Queen Maud Land
Princess Martha Coast
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