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Mount Kjerringa

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Mountain type
  
Metamorphic

Elevation
  
1,220 m

Easiest route
  
basic snow/ice climb

Mount Kjerringa

Location
  
Enderby Land, Australian Antarctic Territory, East Antarctica

Age of rock
  
2837 million years (Archaean eon)

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Mount Kjerringa is an isolated peak, 1,220 metres (4,000 ft) above sea level, situated roughly 8 nmi (15 km) north of the Aker Peaks, 26 nmi (48 km) west of Magnet Bay, and 57 km (31 nmi) northeast of Mount Elkins in Enderby Land, East Antarctica.

Contents

Map of Mount Kjerringa, Antarctica

Discovery and naming

Mount Kjerringa was mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936–37, and called Kjerringa (The Old Woman).

References

Mount Kjerringa Wikipedia