Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Engelstad, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Engelstad (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 rounded summit, 3252m high, rising from the edge of the South Polar Plateau at the head of the Axel Heiberg Glacier in the Queen Maud Range. Discovered in 1911 by Amundsen and named by him for Captain Ole Engelstad, of the Norwegian Navy, who had been selected as second in command of the Fram to carry the expedition to Antarctica, but who was killed in a scientific experiment preceding its departure. Apparently an error in the position of Mts Engelstad and Wilhelm Christophersen on the map of Amundsen's book Sydpolen, gave rise to transposition in subsequent cartographic application of these names. The application of these names is based on analysis of Amundsen's narrative.
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