Wilhelm Christophersen, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Wilhelm Christophersen (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Mountain (2a)
This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A mound-shaped knob, about 3389m high, rising from the edge of the South Polar Plateau at the head of the Axel Heiberg Glacier, between Mt Fridtjof Nansen and Mt Engelstad, in the Queen Maud Range. Discovered by Amundsen on his journey to the South Pole in Novemger 1911, and named by him for Wilhelm C C Christophersen, Norwegian diplomat and Minister at Buenos Aires at that time. Apparently an error in the position of Mt Wilhelm Christophersen and Mt Engelstad on the map in Amundsen's book, Sydpolen, gave rise to transposition in subsequent cartographic application of these names. The application of these names by the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names is based on an analysis of Amundsen's narrative.
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