Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Frigga Peak (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Frigga Peak (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Peak (2d)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
Peak, 1,570 m, which stands at the S side of Anderson Glacier on the E coast of Graham Land. Charted by the FIDS and photographed from the air by the RARE in 1947. The FIDS named it after the mythological Norse goddess Frigga, the "cloud spinner," because cloud was observed to form on the summit of this peak earlier than on any other feature in this vicinity.
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